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n. (cocktail dress English)
Usage examples of "cocktail dresses".
Style & Trend is at the expensive end of the market and makes evening gowns and women's suits and cocktail dresses.
A cardbox box at the end of the row was overflowing with cheap cocktail dresses--a weird anomaly.
And if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in her rose garden, they were cocktail dresses that she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties.
Half a dozen cocktail dresses were tossed haphazardly over a chair.
There were cocktail dresses, evening gowns, smart little suits that showed more leg than she normally revealed.
Most of the women were Americans, a brittle-looking lot, none of them young, all wearing sleeveless cocktail dresses that fit like rubber sacks.
One evening Kitty came to her cottage to find Jordana standing before the mirror, holding one of her cocktail dresses in front of her.
Yael was the queen of the day, magnificent in one of her original cocktail dresses, smiling and laughing with everybody, except when Shayna or Eva Sonshine crossed her line of vision.
In her travels Nicola had often sat in shared bedrooms andcabins and boudoirs and powder parlours, and watched debutantes,predatory divorcees, young hostesses, even reasonably successfulgood-time girls shimmying out of their cocktail dresses andballgowns to reveal some bunched nightmare of bloomers, tights, long Johns, Y-fronts.
Prom gowns, cocktail dresses, women's suits, acrylic sweaters, blouses, and Hawaiian shirts.
Stoat resented that his wife wouldn't set foot in Swain's, because she would've looked spectacular sitting there, scissor-legged and preening in one of her tight black cocktail dresses.
Among racks of cocktail dresses, silk blouses, silk jackets, handbags, I hurried at last to a door marked EMPLOYEES ONLY.
She spent her days sleeping, shoplifting cocktail dresses and painting her nails.