Crossword clues for ballgown
ballgown
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
alt. A formal gown to be worn by woman to balls and similar social events. n. A formal gown to be worn by woman to balls and similar social events.
Usage examples of "ballgown".
Lizzie is a handsome, statuesque freedwoman, curiously self-assured, who made the ballgowns for half the famous ladies in Washington.
Ryan, and she and Rena must have tried on the ballgowns five times each before reaching a decision.
In the halls, they encountered other curious passengers, like themselves, people in nightgowns and fur coats, still in white tie and ballgowns, or bathrobes and bare legs.
Nonetheless, she wore a deep green satin and velvet cape over her green lace ballgown, both intended to help her fade into the shadows at the first sign that anyone looked at her with suspicion.
Picking one out, she put it on top of the ballgown to dress her daughter in .
Rillanon could shuck her first ballgown in the back seat of a closed carriage, and was fast asleep before his head hit the pillow, and if there were no further insulting questions, he would just as soon let the Captain get on to insulting somebody else.
She had wanted to look beautiful for Ryan, and she and Rena must have tried on the ballgowns five times each before reaching a decision.
In her travels Nicola had often sat in shared bedrooms and cabins and boudoirs and powder parlours, and watched debutantes, predatory divorcees, young hostesses, even reasonably successful good-time girls shimmying out of their cocktail dresses and ballgowns to reveal some bunched nightmare of bloomers, tights, long Johns, Y-fronts.
After relieving himself, Viztria had gone back into his sleeping chamber and stripped off his clothes quicker than a fifteen-year-old nobleman's daughter from Rillanon could shuck her first ballgown in the back seat of a closed carriage, and was fast asleep before his head hit the pillow, and if there were no further insulting questions, he would just as soon let the Captain get on to insulting somebody else.
He scurried across the intervening space, sword at the ready for what good it might do, grabbed Lady Ramkin by an arm and a handful of bedraggled ballgown, and swung her on to his shoulder.