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View synonyms for morning dress

morning dress

noun

  1. formal daytime apparel for men, including striped pants, a cutaway, and a silk hat.
  2. a simple dress for wear in the home; housedress.


morning dress

noun

  1. formal day dress for men, comprising a morning coat, usually with grey trousers and top hat
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of morning dress1

First recorded in 1690–1700
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Example Sentences

While Miss Symes was speaking she was changing her morning-dress and putting on a very warm woolen dressing-gown.

The simple white morning-dress, with the black velvet ribbon at throat and waist was sad and suggestive too.

Lulu stands motionless before the mirror, in a green silk morning-dress.

Lulu, in a big-flowered morning-dress, her hair in a simple knot in a golden circlet, sits in the arm-chair left of the ottoman.

Mrs. Erwin herself wore a morning-dress of becoming delicacy, and an airy French cap; she had a light fall of powder on her face.

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