evening dress

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noun

formal or semiformal attire for evening wear.

Also called evening clothes .

Compare morning dress.

Origin of evening dress

First recorded in 1790–1800

Words nearby evening dress

evenhanded, evening, evening bag, evening campion, evening class, evening dress, evening emerald, evening gown, evening grosbeak, evening prayer, evening primrose

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Example sentences from the Web for evening dress

Both of them were in evening-dress, but they did different things with their napkins, and Antony was the more polite of the two.
The Red House Mystery|A. A. Milne
Owen pointed to one of a somewhat stout woman in evening-dress, and he whispered an illustrious name.
Evelyn Innes|George Moore
This man with the top-hat and the evening-dress, he hadn't suffered—how could he understand?
Out To Win|Coningsby Dawson
"Nobody wants me," he said, and of course the lady in the evening-dress could not stand that.
Peter Pan|James M. Barrie

The best thing I took away from Paris in 1899 was an evening-dress with a low neck—my first to go with hair put up.
Paris Vistas|Helen Davenport Gibbons

British Dictionary definitions for evening dress

evening dress

noun

attire for wearing at a formal occasion during the evening, esp (for men) a dinner jacket and black tie, or (less commonly, for women) a floor-length gown

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单词	evening dress
释义	evening dress SEE SYNONYMS FOR evening dress ON THESAURUS.COM noun formal or semiformal attire for evening wear. Also called evening clothes . Compare morning dress. Origin of evening dress First recorded in 1790–1800 Words nearby evening dress evenhanded, evening, evening bag, evening campion, evening class, evening dress, evening emerald, evening gown, evening grosbeak, evening prayer, evening primrose Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for evening dress Both of them were in evening-dress, but they did different things with their napkins, and Antony was the more polite of the two. The Red House Mystery\|A. A. Milne Owen pointed to one of a somewhat stout woman in evening-dress, and he whispered an illustrious name. Evelyn Innes\|George Moore This man with the top-hat and the evening-dress, he hadn't suffered—how could he understand? Out To Win\|Coningsby Dawson "Nobody wants me," he said, and of course the lady in the evening-dress could not stand that. Peter Pan\|James M. Barrie The best thing I took away from Paris in 1899 was an evening-dress with a low neck—my first to go with hair put up. Paris Vistas\|Helen Davenport Gibbons British Dictionary definitions for evening dress evening dress noun attire for wearing at a formal occasion during the evening, esp (for men) a dinner jacket and black tie, or (less commonly, for women) a floor-length gown Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to evening dress evening gown, formal, white tie, evening clothes, formalwear, soup-and-fish
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evening dress

noun

Origin of evening dress

Words nearby evening dress

Example sentences from the Web for evening dress

British Dictionary definitions for evening dress

noun

Words related to evening dress