Definitions
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- noun A traditional
dress worn byChinese women
Etymologies
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Examples
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You would no doubt have seen shops selling beautiful and sexy Cheongsam dresses (also known as qipao).
Hot-screensaver Frog Prince 2010
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Usually perceived as a form-fitting long dress, it is originally called a qipao and is known as the cheongsam in English.
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My qipao was my 3rd outfit of the night (I wore my white wedding gown and qua before).
Weddingbee Mrs. Toucan 2008
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My qipao was my 3rd outfit of the night (I wore my white wedding gown and qua before).
Weddingbee 2008
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The modern-meets-sultry pumps and flats in ornate silk patterns could be worn with a silk qipao, or form-fitting dress.
The Bling Dynasty 2010
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Shanghai has always been the lady in the slit-skirt qipao, the fitted Chinese dress popular in the 1920s, brought into the 21st century.
The Bling Dynasty 2010
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Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal Channeling 1920s old Shanghai, Monique Wu wears a silk embroidered qipao with a white shawl and fish net stockings.
The Subterraneans 2011
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Shanghai film star Ruan Lingyu shows how a fashionable woman of the 1930s wore a qipao -- over a slip whose lace borders would show through the slits.
The Qipao Keeps Up 2010
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This 1940s qipao belonged to Lam Yee-mui, a renowned Cantonese opera singer whose stage name was
The Qipao Keeps Up 2010
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This design by Wing Choi, named for the famous 19th-century beauty Countess Castiglione, was made using the traditional Shanghaiese-style qipao-cutting method.
The Qipao Keeps Up 2010
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