dinner clothes
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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Last month two gentlemen in natty dinner clothes were seen to scuttle out of the Pulitzer Building in Park Row, Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three out of four say they dress "so-so," and you seldom catch them out in dinner clothes or tails.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roosevelt wore a business suit by day, dinner clothes at night.
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
I had dressed in dinner clothes with exceeding care; no one could have guessed that my business for most of the night was to superintend the night-shift at a factory.
From I Walked in Arden by Crawford, Jack
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