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teadress

teadress is the alternative form of tea dress.

Meaning of tea dress

Noun

tea dress (plural tea dresses)

  1. Synonym of tea-gown.
    • Miss Hawthorne was here all day to make me a 5 o'clock tea dress.2007, Frances Hoffman, Ryan Taylor, Much to Be Done: Private Life in Ontario from Victorian Diaries, page 138
    Synonyms:
    tea-gown
  2. A short, semiformal, dress appropriate for afternoon tea or similar occasions, relaxed enough for dancing, and usually made of light printed fabric.
    • The tea dress conjures up the quintessence of traditional Englishness. Both feminine and formal, it is nonetheless relaxed enough to be worn at all manner of social occasions from a summer wedding or garden party to a drink in the local pub. Because of its attractive versatility, the flowery...2009, Design Museum Enterprise Ltd., Fifty Dresses that Changed the World

Forms of teadress

pluralteadresses

Questions about teadress

What is teadress the alternative form of?
Teadress is the alternative form of tea dress.

Words near teadress in the dictionary

  1. teacups
  2. teacupsful
  3. tead
  4. teade
  5. teades
  6. teadress
  7. teadresses
  8. teads
  9. teaed
  10. teaer
  11. teaers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: teadress (page history and authors); tea dress (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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