evening dress
formal or semiformal attire for evening wear.
Origin of evening dress
1- Also called evening clothes .
- Compare morning dress.
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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 FredericIt was still surging, in waves of blue and yellow, striped by the black evening-clothes of the gentlemen.
The Voyage Out | Virginia WoolfIn his earlier and middle period, living in evening-clothes, he drew with an inexhaustible impulse.
George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians | T. Martin WoodHe 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 LewisBelasco 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
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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