Evening-dressed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Evening-dressed is an adjective meaning In evening dress.
Meaning
In evening dress.
Example Sentences
Of one thing we can be sure: with a maestro conducting an evening-dressed cast featuring knights and dames of the musical establishment in a grand concert hall, this was not The Threepenny Opera as its creators Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill either envisaged or wanted it.
As for dancing in my first set of tails, even a slow foxtrot induced the exhaustion of a sauna, which is maybe why the great eponymous number in Top Hat, with [Fred] Astaire and a score of identical evening-dressed gentlemen, never fails to amaze me with its effect of formal energy unleashed without apparent effort.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include morning-dressed, nightdressed, nightclothed, morning-suited, eveningful, eveningless.
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