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/ˈchoŋ-ˌsäm/ · noun
A tight-fitting Chinese formal woman's dress, usually brightly coloured, patterned and/or embroidered, with a split at the thigh..
France Nuyen, and later Nancy Kwan, sexualized the cheongsam. Though people remember Kwan's movie portrayal of Suzie Wong, before her Nuyen earned fame and plaudits playing the prostitute with a heart of gold on Broadway.
A white velvet cheongsam! Except for people in movies, I've never seen anyone look as good in a cheongsam as she does.
[C]otton cheongsams are still the uniform at several colleges and secondary schools.
Use cheongsam when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cheongsam means A tight-fitting Chinese formal woman's dress, usually brightly coloured, patterned and/or embroidered, with a split at the thigh..
Common synonyms include qipao, changshan.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
France Nuyen, and later Nancy Kwan, sexualized the cheongsam. Though people remember Kwan's movie portrayal of Suzie Wong, before her Nuyen earned fame and plaudits playing the prostitute with a heart of gold on Broadway.
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