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dinner dress

noun

  1. a dress, often long and having sleeves or a jacket, more elaborate than one designed for daytime wear but less formal than an evening gown.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dinner dress1

First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences

I declined the services of a maid, unpacked my trunk, and laid out my dinner dress upon the bed.

Her clinging black gown was sufficiently elaborate for a dinner dress.

Laura wore a fashionable black dinner dress and her skin, by contrast, was very white.

She wore a black dinner dress and when a beam from the window touched her Jimmy thought her skin shone like the snow on the rocks.

Laura wore her black dinner dress and Stannard thought she had not another that so harmonized with her beauty.

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