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evening-dressed

evening-dressed adjective: in evening dress.

Adjective

evening-dressed (not comparable)

  1. In evening dress.
    • When Marat took out a pistol at the tribune, and exclaimed, “One word more, and I shoot myself,” or when David rose from the extreme bench of the Mountain and shouted out, “I demand, I insist upon it, that you assassinate me,” they were scarcely more ripe for Charenton than M. Odillon Barrot, when...1848 February 15, The Morning Chronicle, number 24,435, London, page 5
    • As for dancing in my first set of tails, even a slow foxtrot induced the exhaustion of a sauna, which is maybe why the great eponymous number in Top Hat, with [Fred] Astaire and a score of identical evening-dressed gentlemen, never fails to amaze me with its effect of formal energy unleashed...2001 June 1–7, Alexander Walker, “Golden Oldie”, in Hot Tickets (Evening Standard), page 13

Origin of evening-dressed

From evening dress + -ed.

Questions about evening-dressed

What does evening-dressed mean?
Evening-dressed means in evening dress.
What part of speech is evening-dressed?
Evening-dressed is an adjective.

Words near evening-dressed in the dictionary

  1. evening tea
  2. evening the score
  3. evening up
  4. evening wrap
  5. evening wraps
  6. evening-dressed
  7. evening-gowned
  8. evening-primrose
  9. evening-snow
  10. eveninger
  11. eveningers

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