| 单词 | dinner gown |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdinner gown e. Designating clothing suitable for wearing at a formal dinner, as in dinner gown, dinner suit, dinner wear, etc. See also dinner coat n., dinner dress n., dinner jacket n. ΚΠ 1814 La Belle Assemblée Feb. 85/2 For the dinner costume black bombazeen frocks are very general, though crape is occasionally worn. 1841 C. I. Johnstone Violet Hamilton in Edinb. Tales (1846) II. 388/2 He was carefully dressed in his dinner suit. 1847 Illustr. London News 3 Apr. 210/1 For the evening, dresses will be made in black moire, for dinner wear, and for balls, in black tulle. 1891 Truth 10 Dec. 1240/2 Ecstasies of admiration over a superb dinner-gown. 1933 Daily Mail 20 Oct. 22/4 Mrs. Brandt left in dinner attire at a quarter to eight. 1937 Times 27 Sept. 19/2 A knife-pleated vermilion dinner gown. 1963 P. C. Conerly Backseat Quarterback (2003) xi. 115 Several of the wives..change..from game clothes to dinner wear and remain to rendezvous with their player-husbands. 2003 J. Drury Ian Dury & Blockheads iii. 75 For that week's appearance on Top Of The Pops the band decided to celebrate in style by visiting a Moss Bros store and renting dinner suits. < as lemmas |
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