dinner clothes
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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Dumping salad dressing over Claude's dinner clothes is a less effective weapon for engagement-breaking than the information Raymond can supply about the debts of Mrs. Wetherby.
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
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
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
A man just naturally would curb an impulse to toddle down to the corral if he were in dinner clothes.
From The Trail of Conflict by Loring, Emilie Baker
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