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p'tuksit
Lenape (Munsee) · pre-1700s
"a place name in what is now New York State"
a Delaware Algonquian place name, possibly meaning 'crooked river' or referencing a wolf clan
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Tuxedo
English · 1800s
"a place name in New York"
anglicized as the name of Tuxedo Park, an exclusive New York country club community
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tuxedo
English · 1880s
"a formal dinner jacket or suit"
named after Tuxedo Park, where the informal dinner jacket was first worn to a club event
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