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  • noun a suit or dress for formal occasions

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Examples

  • In old days to go anywhere in a balldress was a simple joy to me, I admired myself; now I feel ashamed and awkward.

    Chapter III. Part II 1917

  • Probably he is too busy curled up on the sofa, her in a balldress in his lap while they watch a DVD.

    In your dreams ladies Ms Robinson 2008

  • He watched as she picked up the hem of an imaginary balldress and swept him an elaborate formal court curtsey that ended in her gracefully sweeping almost to the floor.

    The Rich Man's Royal Mistress Donald, Robyn 2006

  • He watched as she picked up the hem of an imaginary balldress and swept him an elaborate formal court curtsey that ended in her gracefully sweeping almost to the floor.

    The Rich Man's Royal Mistress Donald, Robyn 2006

  • MRS YELVERTON BARRY: _ (In lowcorsaged opal balldress and elbowlength ivory gloves, wearing a sabletrimmed brickquilted dolman, a comb of brilliants and panache of osprey in her hair) _ Arrest him, constable.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • She has had to choose a balldress for the raw mountain-girl they have with them, and get her fitted, and it's a task!

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • She has had to choose a balldress for the raw mountain-girl they have with them, and get her fitted, and it's a task!

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • She has had to choose a balldress for the raw mountain-girl they have with them, and get her fitted, and it's a task!

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Her mother, on the contrary, who was to act the part of Madrina, who wore a dress fac-simile, and who was pale and sad, her eyes almost extinguished with weeping, looked like a picture of misery in a balldress.

    Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

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