evening dress
formal or semiformal attire for evening wear.
Origin of evening dress
1- Also called evening clothes .
- Compare morning dress.
Words Nearby evening dress
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How to use evening dress in a sentence
He was perfectly groomed, clad in evening-dress, and with his gloves and his silk hat in his hand.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairThe best thing I took away from Paris in 1899 was an evening-dress with a low neck—my first to go with hair put up.
Paris Vistas | Helen Davenport GibbonsThey were expected to wear their pretty evening-dress, and look as much like grown-up young ladies as possible.
Betty Vivian | L. T. MeadeIt was Julie all in white, a semi-evening dress that heightened in a wonderful fashion her glorious, blond beauty.
The Hosts of the Air | Joseph A. AltshelerFrom early morning the committee was abroad, in full evening-dress, and desperately busy.
Dry Fish and Wet | Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
British Dictionary definitions for evening dress
attire for wearing at a formal occasion during the evening, esp (for men) a dinner jacket and black tie, or (less commonly, for women) a floor-length gown
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