morning-dress

Vast numbers of people - some in uniform, a sight never seen in London normally as members of the Armed Forces haven't been allowed to wear their uniforms in public since the start of the IRA bombings more than three decades ago - some in national dress Scotsmen in kilts, Africans in great robes, sheiks in flowing headgear, most in morning-dress and general elegance...the HATS, oh the lovely, glorious HATS!

An extraordinary day... Joanna Bogle 2008

Vast numbers of people - some in uniform, a sight never seen in London normally as members of the Armed Forces haven't been allowed to wear their uniforms in public since the start of the IRA bombings more than three decades ago - some in national dress Scotsmen in kilts, Africans in great robes, sheiks in flowing headgear, most in morning-dress and general elegance...the HATS, oh the lovely, glorious HATS!

Archive 2008-07-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

The Topham Sawyers had just come down to breakfast; Mrs.T. in her large dust-colored morning-dress and Madonna front (she looks rather scraggy of a morning, but I promise you her ringlets and figure will stun you of an evening); and having read the note, the following dialogue passed: —

A Little Dinner at Timmins’s 2006

With the exception of the Marquis, all the men were in sombre and solemn morning-dress, with hats like black chimney-pots; the little Doctor especially, with the addition of his black spectacles, looked like an undertaker in a farce.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

I exclaimed suddenly, as looking up from by block-book I saw the figure of a slight man in the careless morning-dress of a gentleman, crossing the ruinous bridge in my direction, with considerable caution, upon the precarious footing of the battlement, which alone offered an unbroken passage.

Uncle Silas 2003

It was a still, sultry day, and Miss Whittaker, her habitual pallor deepened by the oppressive heat, was sitting alone in a white morning-dress, languidly fanning aside at once the droning flies and her equally importunate thoughts.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

And then the speaker threw off his disguise-cloak, and appeared in morning-dress.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 Various

Georgy walked before me in the narrow path, and I followed closely, watching her fine free movements, the charm of her figure in its plain white morning-dress bound at the waist with a purple ribbon.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

It wasn't that she was especially pretty, but in her white morning-dress, with lace about her throat and her fair hair drawn back from her face, I thought she was the delicatest, softest, finest thing of man - or woman-kind I ever say.

Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 Various

_Fig. 2d_ is a morning-dress, that would be very pretty to copy for a bridal wardrobe.

Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 Various