cocktail dress

English

A woman wears a blue cocktail dress.

Etymology

Apparently coined by Christian Dior in the late 1940s to refer to early-evening wear.

Noun

cocktail dress (plural cocktail dresses)

1. A type of women's evening dress suitable for semi-formal occasions or cocktail parties.

Translations

woman's evening dress suitable for cocktail parties

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小禮服／小礼服 (xiǎolǐfú)

• Finnish: cocktail-mekko
• German: Cocktailkleid (de) n
• Hungarian: koktélruha (hu)
• Japanese: カクテルドレス (ja) (kakuteru doresu)
• Romanian: rochie de cocktail f
• Russian: выходно́е пла́тье n (vyxodnóje plátʹje)
• Spanish: vestido de cóctel m
• Swedish: cocktailklänning (sv) c