dinner clothes
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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Last month two gentlemen in natty dinner clothes were seen to scuttle out of the Pulitzer Building in Park Row, Manhattan.
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
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
Dumping salad dressing over Claude's dinner clothes is a less effective weapon for engagement-breaking than the information Raymond can supply about the debts of Mrs. Wetherby.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although very drowsy, I saw that they still wore their dinner clothes.
From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
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