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cheongsam /tʃɪɒŋˈsam / /tʃɒŋˈsam/noun A straight, close-fitting silk dress with a high neck and slit skirt, worn by Chinese and Indonesian women.The opening drew a tux-and-gown crowd, including an array of cheongsams (traditional Chinese dresses) from San Francisco's sizable Chinese community....- Photos from the time show a conservative 18-year-old, dressed in sober cheongsams, her hair sensibly bobbed.
- The most welcoming waitresses, of which there appears to be at least one per table, are smartly dressed in traditional cheongsams.
Origin Chinese (Cantonese dialect). Rhymes am, Amsterdam, Assam, Bram, cam, cham, clam, cram, dam, damn, drachm, dram, exam, femme, flam, gam, glam, gram, ham, jam, jamb, lam, lamb, mam, mesdames, Omar Khayyám, Pam, pram, pro-am, ram, Sam, scam, scram, sham, Siam, slam, Spam, swam, tam, tram, Vietnam, wham, yam |