dinner clothes

plural noun

formal or semiformal clothing worn for formal dinners or similar social occasions.

I shall come in a hired carriage, and quietly dressed—not in dinner clothes, I mean—and you must do the same.

"It is a mutual mash," declared Dee, when we went to our room to don dinner clothes.

I gave Stogie a note for Mrs. Klopton, and with my dinner clothes there came back the gold bag, wrapped in tissue paper.

Now he was wondering if it was necessary for him to journey to Key West and have a suit of dinner clothes made over night.

It was Mr. Beecher himself, in his dinner clothes and bareheaded.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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