evening dress

Both of them were in evening-dress, but they did different things with their napkins, and Antony was the more polite of the two.
The Red House Mystery|A. A. Milne
Owen pointed to one of a somewhat stout woman in evening-dress, and he whispered an illustrious name.
Evelyn Innes|George Moore
This man with the top-hat and the evening-dress, he hadn't suffered—how could he understand?
Out To Win|Coningsby Dawson
"Nobody wants me," he said, and of course the lady in the evening-dress could not stand that.
Peter Pan|James M. Barrie

The 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 Gibbons

British Dictionary definitions for evening dress

evening dress

noun

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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evening dress

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