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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

During scene changes a pair of dancers dressed in dinner clothes move through conventional ballet and ballroom steps, introducing the very sentimentality the story means to blast.

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

He was dressed in plain dinner clothes of old-fashioned cut.

From The Avenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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