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Dressed for a ball, maybe
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gowned
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
clothed \clothed\ adj. wearing clothing. [Narrower terms: adorned(predicate), bedecked(predicate), decked(predicate), decked out(predicate) ; appareled, attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed ; arrayed, panoplied ; breeched, pantalooned, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: gown )
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. wearing a gown; "beautifully gowned women"
Usage examples of gowned.
Sometimes, lying wide-eyed in the dark, she pictured herself at such a moment, gorgeously gowned, and delightfully disdainful of the bejeweled, becrowned, stately kings and queens and little princelings, dukes and duchesses and earls and countesses, all hanging on the exquisite notes she drew from her strings.
Via Mozza, he found Mini entertaining a lavishly gowned emissary from the Duke of Ferrara.
She was gowned once more in the yellow and black, and stood in tigrine splendor cap-a-pie.
He gave a cry of rapture when Valentine at last made her appearance gowned in a delicious travelling dress, with a cavalier toque on her head.
Tentatively Elise formed a vision of herself richly gowned and he, wealthily attired, entering some majestic and courtly chamber with her hand upon his arm.
And so, as if he were a worthy Architect properly gowned and cleansed, he opened the door to the meditation hall and stepped inside.
The beautifully gowned and bejeweled woman at table, her orange hair elaborately ringleted and besprent with pearls and tiny red stones, was the Lady Samaire, daughter of Ulad and Princess of Leinster.
Two finely gowned women sat with Carruthers: Pelly Carpenter beside the man, Jessica Alder next.
I saw her breasts rise and fall in pleasure beneath the flames that gowned her, and she let out a small, purring sound of satisfaction.
Behind her came her daughter, Eugenia, prettily gowned in white silk, with a stocky gentleman, undoubtedly Lord Bennington, whose fair hair gleamed with pomade.
A Communicant made up the party, gowned in brocade, hazed by a blur of entoptic projections.
A gowned abbe, by Vandyck, made the centre of another wall, facing the Gainsboroughs.
They were in evening clothes, the women gowned in the fashion that only the French can attain, the bulky veilleurs-the antikidnapping bracelets worn by anyone in Europe with money-encircling one wrist.
Had kind fate but willed her to be born a gentlewoman of high degree in her own right and had she only received the benefit of a good education Gerty MacDowell might easily have held her own beside any lady in the land and have seen herself exquisitely gowned with jewels on her brow and patrician suitors at her feet vying with one another to pay their devoirs to her.
Then, before entering one of the rooms, they double gowned, adding hoods, goggles, masks, gloves and booties.