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evening-gowned

evening-gowned adjective: wearing an evening gown.

Adjective

evening-gowned (not comparable)

  1. Wearing an evening gown.
    • The improved theater and the evening-gowned women in the audience with the drawing-room effect of toilets, adds a luster to the social season of plays and operas.1895 November 3, “Society Gossip”, in The Morning News, Savannah, Ga., page 12
    • The splendid architecture of our historic building, its galleries receding and allowing full view of open boxes where rows of evening-gowned women, their arms and shoulders bare, are seen resplendent in the narrow framing of crimson velvet that partitions off the seats, offers a sight not equaled...1900 July 1, “Society Notes”, in The Times-Democrat, volume XXXVII, number 15,726, New Orleans, La., part second, page 1

Origin of evening-gowned

From evening gown + -ed.

Questions about evening-gowned

What does evening-gowned mean?
Evening-gowned means wearing an evening gown.
What part of speech is evening-gowned?
Evening-gowned is an adjective.

Words near evening-gowned in the dictionary

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

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