单词 | dinner dress |
释义 | > as lemmasdinner dress dinner dress n. (a) (as a mass noun) clothing suitable for wearing at a formal dinner; (b) (as a count noun) a dress intended to be worn at a formal dinner. ΚΠ 1796 Bell's Weekly Messenger 8 May 15/3 Afternoon, or dinner dress... Robe..of muslin, trimmed with lace or captive chain; the Siddons or Grecian turband, the hair drawn through. 1806 Caledonian Mercury 24 Nov. 1/4 (advt.) For dinner dresses. Imperial Lustre, Italian Cambric Figured and Plain. 1956 J. D. Carr Patrick Butler for Def. vi. 62 Helen, in her dark-blue dinner-dress, stood in the doorway. 2012 Daily Mail (Nexis) 21 June [He] finds it hard to imagine himself trussed up in dinner dress addressing the elite of London's merchants and bankers at the annual Mansion House dinner. < as lemmas |
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