WordNet
n. a formal gown for evening wear [syn: dinner dress, evening gown, tea gown]
Usage examples of "dinner gown".
She found a long dinner gown in cream silk, narrowly but deeply decollete beneath an exquisite beaded jacket.
Dreamily removing the combs and pins from her tresses, she held her hair up in back as the maid unfastened her dinner gown.
Dinner was delightful, though it required a change into corset and dinner gown.
Since Lady Cecelia was wearing a formal dinner gown, she put on her own, and had the satisfaction of seeing her employer truly surprised.
Her dinner gown was of pale tangerine silk with short puff sleeves trimmed with white lace.
Mary Rose was expected to wear a riding habit in the morning, then change to a day dress, then a tea gown, and finally put on an elegant dinner gown.
She is in dinner gown and about her throat is a peculiar locket of flashing jewels.
Her dinner gown, high-necked, ruffle-bosomed, diamond-sequined, red velvet, looked as if she had purchased it in 1890.
In fact, Ham thought she would have looked perfectly at home in a dinner gown playing hostess at a smart cocktail party.