evening dress

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noun
  1. formal or semiformal attire for evening wear.

Origin of evening dress

1
First recorded in 1790–1800
  • Also called evening clothes .

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How to use evening dress in a sentence

  • He stepped forward to meet his host who, clad now in evening-clothes, was smoking a cigarette.

    The Market-Place | Harold Frederic
  • It was still surging, in waves of blue and yellow, striped by the black evening-clothes of the gentlemen.

    The Voyage Out | Virginia Woolf
  • In his earlier and middle period, living in evening-clothes, he drew with an inexhaustible impulse.

  • He shouted in the pool at the Coronado, and he spoke of (though he did nothing more radical than speak of) buying evening-clothes.

    Main Street | Sinclair Lewis
  • Belasco had become interested in Indians, but he also wanted to introduce the evening-clothes feature.

    Charles Frohman: Manager and Man | Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

British Dictionary definitions for evening dress

evening dress

noun
  1. 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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