evening dress
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evening dress (countable and uncountable, plural evening dresses)
- (countable) An elegant dress worn by women, especially for social events in the evening, an evening gown.
- (uncountable) formal attire worn for evening social events.
- I felt uncomfortably conspicuous, since I was the only man in evening dress.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
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elegant dress worn by women
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formal attire for evenings
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