dinner dress

noun

1. a dress, often long and having sleeves or a jacket, more elaborate than one designed for daytime wear but less formal than an evening gown.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dinner dress¹

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

I declined the services of a maid, unpacked my trunk, and laid out my dinner dress upon the bed.

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Her clinging black gown was sufficiently elaborate for a dinner dress.

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Laura wore a fashionable black dinner dress and her skin, by contrast, was very white.

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She wore a black dinner dress and when a beam from the window touched her Jimmy thought her skin shone like the snow on the rocks.

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Laura wore her black dinner dress and Stannard thought she had not another that so harmonized with her beauty.

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