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daydress

UK/ˈdeɪ.dɹes/US/ˈdeɪ.dɹɛs/

daydress noun: a garment designed to be worn during the day, usually by women.

Noun

daydress (plural daydresses)

  1. A garment designed to be worn during the day, usually by women.
    • Doffing her daydress, she flung about her a loose gown of white wool, heavy with embroidery.1900, Margaret Horton Potter, “Royal Visitors at Bristol” (chapter XXII), in Uncanonized, Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., page 405
    • She still wore the long-skirted black daydress which seemed to be part of her.1970 [1941], Helen MacInnes, “Frau Köppler Recommends” (chapter X), in Above Suspicion, Fontana Books, page 89

Forms of daydress

pluraldaydresses

Origin of daydress

From day + dress.

Questions about daydress

What does daydress mean?
Daydress means a garment designed to be worn during the day, usually by women.
What part of speech is daydress?
Daydress is a noun.
How do you pronounce daydress?
Daydress is pronounced /ˈdeɪ.dɹes/ (UK).
What is the plural of daydress?
The plural of daydress is daydresses.

Words near daydress in the dictionary

  1. daydreamings
  2. daydreamlike
  3. daydreams
  4. daydreamt
  5. daydreamy
  6. daydress
  7. daydresses
  8. daye
  9. dayed
  10. dayee
  11. dayees

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