What is "ballgowns"

Usage examples of "ballgowns".

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.

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.