英语词汇tuxedo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tuxedo. What do Indians have to do with tuxedos? In 1890, dress requirements at the local country club in Tuxedo Park, New York, 40 miles or so from Manhattan, called for men to wear a tailless dinner jacket at most nightly affairs. This was known as a tuxedo coat until matching pants were added to the outfit and it became known as a tuxedo, which inevitably was shortened to tux. The word tuxedo itself derives from the white settlers’ pronunciation of the name of the Ptuksit Indians, a subtribe of Delaware Indians who lived in what is now Tuxedo Park. Ptuksit meant “roundfoot” or “wolf tribe” in allusion to the wolf, “he of the roundfoot.”

词汇	tuxedo
词源	tuxedo. What do Indians have to do with tuxedos? In 1890, dress requirements at the local country club in Tuxedo Park, New York, 40 miles or so from Manhattan, called for men to wear a tailless dinner jacket at most nightly affairs. This was known as a tuxedo coat until matching pants were added to the outfit and it became known as a tuxedo, which inevitably was shortened to tux. The word tuxedo itself derives from the white settlers’ pronunciation of the name of the Ptuksit Indians, a subtribe of Delaware Indians who lived in what is now Tuxedo Park. Ptuksit meant “roundfoot” or “wolf tribe” in allusion to the wolf, “he of the roundfoot.”
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