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dinner clothes

American  

plural noun

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


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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

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

George Franklin Jr., executive director of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, even pedals in dinner clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Roosevelt wore a business suit by day, dinner clothes at night.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Percy Parrott appeared once more in the dinner clothes which upon a previous occasion had given Crowheart its first sight of the habiliment of polite society.

From The Lady Doc by Caroline Lockhart

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