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party dress en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A woman's dress that is too elegant, revealing, dressy or impractical for normal wear.
   • The designer’s most recent advertising campaign was shot in a Scottish landfill site, featuring the models Birgit Kos in a camel jumpsuit on top of the decaying wreck of a car, and Iana Godnia in a green lace party dress prone on a bed of cardboard and flattened milk cartons. 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian:
   • Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl. /And with the way you look I understand /that you were not impressed. /But I heard you let that little friend of mine /take off your party dress. 1977, Elvis Costello, Alison:

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Translations (8)

de Partykleid (woman's elegant dress) · ru вече́рнее пла́тье (woman's elegant dress) · ka საღამოს კაბა (woman's elegant dress) · fr robe de soirée (woman's elegant dress) · ja パーティードレス (woman's elegant dress) · cmn 晚禮服 /晚礼服 (woman's elegant dress) · fi juhlamekko (woman's elegant dress) · nl feestjurk (woman's elegant dress)