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dinner clothes

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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

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

We struck a squall that surprised many of us enjoying the salt sea breeze in our stuffy state rooms, by washing the spray over our neatly put-out dinner clothes.

From The Log of the Empire State by Shaffer, Geneve L. A.

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