dinner clothes
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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During scene changes a pair of dancers dressed in dinner clothes move through conventional ballet and ballroom steps, introducing the very sentimentality the story means to blast.
From Time Magazine Archive
Krantz goes for grand howlers: "Thank heaven they'd all be in their staterooms, intently adjusting their resort dinner clothes, caparisoned for the delectation of each other."
From Time Magazine Archive
Dumping salad dressing over Claude's dinner clothes is a less effective weapon for engagement-breaking than the information Raymond can supply about the debts of Mrs. Wetherby.
From Time Magazine Archive
George Franklin Jr., executive director of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, even pedals in dinner clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I see nothing remarkable," Herrick rebuked him, with considerable state, "in his having on dinner clothes."
From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia
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