evening dress
Example Sentences
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She said she used to attend some classes “wearing my evening dress under my Burberry, with my diamonds in my pocket so I could go out afterward.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Items included the "perfect" white cotton t-shirt, a striped blue "boyfriend" shirt and white linen trousers, as well as more formal items such as a black wool blazer and a full-length, ivory-coloured evening dress.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025
Women’s Wear Daily reported that the evening dress was designed by Alexandra O’Neill for Markarian — the label that the first lady wore on inauguration day.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2022
On a late Tuesday afternoon in September, Diane Sun stood at a White House presidential podium in an evening dress and recited her poem, “a recipe for steaming almost-dragon.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2022
Much was made, in retrospect, of the fact that Root, in evening dress, charged into the rock-cold night without first putting on a coat.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
