evening dress

Definitions

1. An elegant dress worn by women, especially for social events in the evening, an evening gown.
   countable
2. Formal attire worn for evening social events.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I felt uncomfortably conspicuous, since I was the only man in evening dress.”

“She was frankly disappointed. For some reason⟳ she had expected to discover⟳ a burglar of one or another accepted type⟳—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.”

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