evening dress


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evening dress

n.
1. Clothing worn for evening social events. Also called evening clothes.
2. An evening gown.
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evening dress

n
(Clothing & Fashion) 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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eve′ning dress`


n.
formal or semiformal attire for evening wear. Also called eve′ning clothes`.
[1790–1800]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.evening dress - attire to wear on formal occasions in the eveningevening dress - attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening
attire, garb, dress - clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress"
balldress - a suit or dress for formal occasions
dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown, formal - a gown for evening wear
black tie, dinner jacket, tux, tuxedo - semiformal evening dress for men
dress suit, full dress, tail coat, tailcoat, tails, white tie and tails, white tie - formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men
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Translations
لِبَاسُ السَّهْرَةلِباس المَساء الرَّسْميلِباس المَساء الرَّسْمي للمَرأه
večerní šaty
selskabstøjaftenkjoleselskabskjole
iltapuku
večernja haljina
estélyi öltözet/ruha
kvöldkjóllkvöldklæînaîur
イブニングドレス
야회복
večerná toaletavečerné šaty
högtidsdräkt
ชุดกลางคืน
váy dạ hội

evening dress

n (woman's) → abito da sera
in evening dress (man) → in abito scuro (woman) → in abito lungo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

evening

(iːvniŋ) noun
1. the part of the day between the afternoon and the night. He leaves the house in the morning and returns in the evening; summer evenings; tomorrow evening; on Tuesday evening; early evening; (also adjective) the evening performance.
2. the last part (of one's life etc). in the evening of her life.
evening dress
1. clothes worn for formal occasions in the evening.
2. a formal dress worn by a woman in the evening.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

evening dress

لِبَاسُ السَّهْرَة večerní šaty selskabstøj Abendkleid βραδινό ένδυμα traje de etiqueta, traje de noche iltapuku robe de soirée večernja haljina abito da sera イブニングドレス 야회복 avondjurk aftenkjole strój wieczorowy vestido de noite вечернее платье högtidsdräkt ชุดกลางคืน gece elbisesi váy dạ hội 夜礼服
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References in classic literature ?
Turning in my seat I saw a man in evening dress who had just entered the room.
He uprose in full evening dress, And with senseless grimaces endeavored to say What his tongue could no longer express.
As he strolled home, smoking his cigarette, two young men in evening dress passed him.
Paul's Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress. They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing busily.
She put on a black skirt, but chose the bodice of the evening dress which she liked best: it was of a white damask which was fashionable in those days.
The members and guests of the Club wandered hither and thither, sat, stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftans.
If you can come, you will see the cave-man, in evening dress, snarling and snapping over a bone.
To them she appeared, as she walked towards them in her light evening dress, extremely young, and the sight of her refreshed them, were it only because her youth and ignorance made their knowledge of the world of some value.
She draped it across the boy in graceful folds, and in a way to conceal his black, conventional evening dress. He did not seem to mind what she did to him, only smiled, showing a faint gleam of white teeth, while he continued to gaze with narrowing eyes at the light through his glass of champagne.
He had on evening dress, a moustache, a chrysanthemum, and a look of ennui, all of which he kept carefully under his eye.
In the quietest form of evening dress, there was something noticeable in the man's very insignificance.
He was an elegant man in very plain evening dress; tall, but with an air of not taking up much room; one felt that he could have slid along like a shadow where many smaller men would have been obvious and obstructive.