cocktail dress
cocktail dress · cocktail dresses
выходное платье
Cocktailkleid
A type of women's evening dress suitable for semiformal occasions or cocktail partiesA type of women's evening dress suitable for semiformal occasions or cocktail parties.
» Mary is too old to wear a cocktail dress.
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1 sensesA type of women's evening dress suitable for semiformal occasions or cocktail parties.
Cocktailkleid
выходно́е пла́тьеvyxodnóje plátʹje
a dress suitable for formal occasions
Examples
2 sentencesMary is too old to wear a cocktail dress.
Mary wore a black cocktail dress.
deMaria trug ein schwarzes Cocktailkleid. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
3 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
woman's evening dress suitable for cocktail parties:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
woman's evening dress suitable for cocktail parties:
Origin
Apparently coined by Christian Dior in the late 1940s to refer to early-evening wear.Apparently coined by Christian Dior in the late 1940s to refer to early-evening wear.
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Forms
plural: cocktail dresses| Singular | cocktail dress |
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regular
Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- a dress suitable for formal occasions:sheath