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evening dress
noun
- formal or semiformal attire for evening wear.
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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Word History and Origins
Origin of evening dress1
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Example Sentences
He was perfectly groomed, clad in evening-dress, and with his gloves and his silk hat in his hand.
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.
They were expected to wear their pretty evening-dress, and look as much like grown-up young ladies as possible.
It was Julie all in white, a semi-evening dress that heightened in a wonderful fashion her glorious, blond beauty.
From early morning the committee was abroad, in full evening-dress, and desperately busy.
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