dinner clothes
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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George Franklin Jr., executive director of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, even pedals in dinner clothes.
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
Careful, conscientious Christian Herter discouraged committeemen from taking their wives, told them to pack no dinner clothes, be prepared on their return to answer a stiff and lengthy questionnaire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shrewd, when Walter Winchell, famed obstetri-calligrapher of the New York Mirror, not wearing dinner clothes, tried to get in his club, Troubadour Downey turned him out, profited when Winchell publicized the incident.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mannering, tall and grave in his plain dinner clothes and black tie, stood almost like a statue before her, until her extended hand invited his movement.
From A Lost Leader by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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