evening dress
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.51 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An elegant dress worn by women, especially for social events in the evening, an evening gown.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "I felt uncomfortably conspicuous, since I was the only man in evening dress."
- "She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp."