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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)

  1. 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)

  1. (UK, intransitive, live action roleplaying games) To roleplay romance as part of a roleplaying game.
    • She'll take any excuse to ballgown!

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Questions about ballgowned

What is ballgowned the alternative form of?
Ballgowned is the alternative form of ball-gowned.

Words near ballgowned in the dictionary

  1. ballgirl
  2. ballgirls
  3. ballgoer
  4. ballgoers
  5. ballgown
  6. ballgowned
  7. ballgowning
  8. ballgowns
  9. ballhair
  10. ballhairs
  11. ballhandler

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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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