dinner clothes
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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As her friends’ car idled outside, she changed into dinner clothes and let drop that she’s taking swim classes.
From Washington Post
Ms. Hammer was wearing elegant dinner clothes — a cashmere sweater, a silk scarf — along with a large pair of hiking boots, which a kind islander gave her after she lost her shoes in the scramble to escape.
From New York Times
"I see nothing remarkable," Herrick rebuked him, with considerable state, "in his having on dinner clothes."
From Project Gutenberg
On the floor at the foot of the bed lay the body of a young man in dinner clothes.
From Project Gutenberg
The Ashbys and Fabians knew this to be a courtesy extended them because of their lack of baggage, but Mrs. Alexander thought Sir James meant that their own trunks had gone to the country and so they were not able to dress in dinner clothes.
From Project Gutenberg
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