dinner clothes
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Although very drowsy, I saw that they still wore their dinner clothes.
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