ballgowned
ballgowned is the alternative form of ball-gowned.
ballgowned is the simple past and past participle of ballgown.
Meaning of ball-gowned
Adjective
ball-gowned (not comparable)
- Wearing a ball gown.
- With a last pat here, a final fingering of the frizzes, and a farewell adjustment of feathers and flowers, the competitors whisk off the wrappers and the twenty-seven ball-gowned young ladies are revealed to us in all the glory of their elaborate coiffures.1890 December 14, “Wild Hairdressing. An Odd Scene of Skill and Riot at a Competitive Exhibition in Paris.”, in The Sun, volume LVIII, number 105, New York, N.Y., page 25
Meaning of ballgown
Verb
ballgown (third-person singular simple present ballgowns, present participle ballgowning, simple past and past participle ballgowned)
- To roleplay romance as part of a roleplaying game.
- She'll take any excuse to ballgown!
Questions about ballgowned
- What is ballgowned the alternative form of?
- Ballgowned is the alternative form of ball-gowned.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballgowned (page history and authors); ball-gowned (page history and authors); ballgown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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