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Chinese dress
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cheongsam
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The cheongsam (, or ) is a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women, also known in Mandarin Chinese as qípáo (; Wade-Giles ch'i-p'ao ), and Mandarin gown in English. The stylish and often tight-fitting cheongsam or qipao (chipao) that is best known ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A long formal dress-like garment worn by Asian men, the equivalent of a woman’s qipao. In Hong Kong, the cheongsam is also worn by women.
Usage examples of cheongsam.
The skirt of her cheongsam was slit nearly to the thigh and she had arranged her slender legs in a graceful pose.
She looked gorgeous, with her slender legs hooked across an arm of the sofa and a deep blue cheongsam riding up above her knees.
In terms of design it hadn't been that difficult: It was a simple Chinese cheongsam, made of red silk with a floral print.
She flicked it off and glared up at Lee Chang, standing there hardly five feet tall and very antique Oriental in her cheongsam dress.
Against the headboard of the Chinese sleigh bed, decorative silk pillows fashioned from cheongsam fabrics had been artfully arranged by the housekeeper.