WordNet
n. a formal gown for evening wear [syn: dinner gown, evening gown, tea gown]
Wikipedia
A dinner dress is a gown that was worn by ladies in the Victorian era for dinners and parties at homes. It could be very elaborate, but often had long sleeves, a high neck, or a narrow skirt to set them apart from evening gowns. In the 20th century however, dinner dresses went out of fashion and were replaced by evening gowns for formal dinners.
Category:Dresses Category:19th-century fashion
Usage examples of "dinner dress".
She wore a dinner dress--a white satin blouse tailored like a man's, and a long black skirt, straight and simple as the polished planes of her hair.
She selected casual clothes, blazers, slacks, one basic dinner dress, and was carrying them toward the bed to the open suitcase when Cullum walked in.
In her cabin, Myrtis had laid out her favorite dinner dress, a rich golden-brown shi-silk accented with ivory lace.
Then Edge let the man help him don his dinner dress, for he was unfamiliar with the complexities of false shirt front, collar and studs and such, and never would he be capable of tying his own white tie.