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- noun Plural form of
ballgown .
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Examples
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"Women don't run around in ballgowns, I'm sorry to say."
Vera Wang's 20 Fashion Lessons Hilary Moss 2010
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"Women don't run around in ballgowns, I'm sorry to say."
Vera Wang's 20 Fashion Lessons Hilary Moss 2010
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"Women don't run around in ballgowns, I'm sorry to say."
Vera Wang's 20 Fashion Lessons The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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We wandered into the Breaking Dawn party at Barnes and Nobles by accident (filled with lovely girls in ballgowns making paper flowers.)
Wonderfully Strange arhyalon 2008
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The sets are mostly spectacular, but costumes are a kaleidoscopic three-century mishmash, with 18th-century frock coats, Belle Epoque ballgowns, 1940s mafiosi and swarms of pierced punks and Goths.
In 'Manon,' Best to Close Your Eyes Judy Fayard 2012
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No teenager setting off from Tower Bridge now would find themselves amid ballgowns, hunting parties and lonely mountaintop shepherds.
Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial 2011
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This year's attendees did not disappoint: I doubt that there have been so many full-skirted ballgowns in one room since the Twelve Oaks ball in Gone with the Wind.
Lesley M. M. Blume: Glitter and Gold: New Yorkers for Children Gala Builds New Futures (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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In La Monnaie's December production of Jules Massenet's "Cendrillon," dozens of princesses in fantastical geometric red ballgowns sashayed across the stage, while the fairy—a superb Eglise Gutierrez—flitted across the rooftops of Paris in a dove-gray dress with wings reimagined as feathery puffs of smoke.
From Revolution to Evolution Frances Robinson 2012
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This year's attendees did not disappoint: I doubt that there have been so many full-skirted ballgowns in one room since the Twelve Oaks ball in Gone with the Wind.
Lesley M. M. Blume: Glitter and Gold: New Yorkers for Children Gala Builds New Futures (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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This year's attendees did not disappoint: I doubt that there have been so many full-skirted ballgowns in one room since the Twelve Oaks ball in Gone with the Wind.
Lesley M. M. Blume: Glitter and Gold: New Yorkers for Children Gala Builds New Futures (PHOTOS) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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