party dress

English

Noun

party dress (plural party dresses)

1. A woman's dress that is too elegant, revealing, dressy or impractical for normal wear.
   • 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     The designer’s most recent advertising campaign was shot in a Scottish landfill site, featuring the models Birgit Kos in a camel jumpsuit on top of the decaying wreck of a car, and Iana Godnia in a green lace party dress prone on a bed of cardboard and flattened milk cartons.

   • 1977, Elvis Costello, Alison:

     Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long, girl. /And with the way you look I understand /that you were not impressed. /But I heard you let that little friend of mine /take off your party dress.

Translations

woman's elegant dress

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 晚禮服／晚礼服 (zh) (wǎnlǐfú)

• Finnish: juhlamekko
• French: robe de soirée f
• Georgian: საღამოს კაბა (saɣamos ḳaba)
• German: Partykleid n
• Japanese: パーティードレス (pātīdoresu)
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: вече́рнее пла́тье n (večérneje plátʹje)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can