evening dress
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of evening dress
First recorded in 1790–1800
Example Sentences
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She said she used to attend some classes “wearing my evening dress under my Burberry, with my diamonds in my pocket so I could go out afterward.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Items included the "perfect" white cotton t-shirt, a striped blue "boyfriend" shirt and white linen trousers, as well as more formal items such as a black wool blazer and a full-length, ivory-coloured evening dress.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
A woman wearing a glittery evening dress calmly strides behind the bar at a San Jose steakhouse and scans bottles of alcohol.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2022
Technically, they should only be worn with full evening dress, known as white tie, but as that hardly exists any longer … oh, go ahead.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021
“This was my evening dress for quite some time,” Marian recalled, “and in some ways it made me happier than the one that would have cost fourteen ninety-eight.”
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
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