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Morning dress   /mˈɔrnɪŋ drɛs/   Listen
Morning dress

noun
1.
Formal attire for men during the daytime.
2.
A woman's informal dress for housework.






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"Morning dress" Quotes from Famous Books



... was not still asleep. For, going to the door of the Doctor's room and looking in, he perceived that the shoemaker's bench and tools were put aside again, and that the Doctor himself sat reading at the window. He was in his usual morning dress, and his face (which Mr. Lorry could distinctly see), though still very pale, was calmly studious ...
— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens

... the remark of our hero, well pleased to find himself in this spot, on the walls of Castle Downie, and those of the ancient abbey of Beaulieu in the near neighbourhood. Between the hours of five and six Lord Lovat appeared walking about in his hall, in a morning dress, and at the same time a servant flung open the great folding doors, and all the outer doors and windows of the house. It is about this time that many of the great families of the present day go ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume II. • Mrs. Thomson

... trip over. Found it hot here. Started in building your scenery. Am only dropping you a line because I want to ask you, while I think of it, if you will get a copy of that special morning dress that Gerald wears at the beginning of the second act, for Richard Bennett. I think it would be a good idea to bring it over. Bennett is not quite as tall as Du Maurier and just a bit thicker, and as it is a sort of loose dress there will be no difficulty in fitting ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman



Words linked to "Morning dress" :   dress, swallow-tailed coat, attire, frock, garb, morning coat, swallowtail



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