evening-dressed

English

Etymology

From evening dress +‎ -ed.

Adjective

evening-dressed (not comparable)

1. In evening dress.
   • 1848 February 15, The Morning Chronicle, number 24,435, London, page 5:

     When Marat took out a pistol at the tribune, and exclaimed, “One word more, and I shoot myself,” or when David rose from the extreme bench of the Mountain and shouted out, “I demand, I insist upon it, that you assassinate me,” they were scarcely more ripe for Charenton than M. Odillon Barrot, when, Cataline-like, he rushed from the Palais Bourbon, “Abiit, excepit, evasit, erupit”—when, Sylla-like, “He dared depart / In savage grandeur home,” to return, the next day, with the same decent demeanour and benign appearance, at the head of the same array of evening-dressed and white-cravatted individuals, professing bit by bit, and day after day, principles which in their accelerated advance approach them more and more to sans culottes.

   • 2001 June 1–7, Alexander Walker, “Golden Oldie”, in Hot Tickets (Evening Standard), page 13:

     As for dancing in my first set of tails, even a slow foxtrot induced the exhaustion of a sauna, which is maybe why the great eponymous number in Top Hat, with [Fred] Astaire and a score of identical evening-dressed gentlemen, never fails to amaze me with its effect of formal energy unleashed without apparent effort.

   • 2013 March 4, Rupert Christiansen, “Polish and pedantry are no match for slash and panache”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 49,070, →ISSN, page 23:

     Of one thing we can be sure: with a maestro conducting an evening-dressed cast featuring knights and dames of the musical establishment in a grand concert hall, this was not The Threepenny Opera as its creators Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill either envisaged or wanted it.