evening-gowned

English

Etymology

From evening gown +‎ -ed.

Adjective

evening-gowned (not comparable)

1. Wearing an evening gown.
   • 1895 November 3, “Society Gossip”, in The Morning News, Savannah, Ga., page 12:

     The improved theater and the evening-gowned women in the audience with the drawing-room effect of toilets, adds a luster to the social season of plays and operas.

   • 1900 July 1, “Society Notes”, in The Times-Democrat, volume XXXVII, number 15,726, New Orleans, La., part second, page 1:

     The splendid architecture of our historic building, its galleries receding and allowing full view of open boxes where rows of evening-gowned women, their arms and shoulders bare, are seen resplendent in the narrow framing of crimson velvet that partitions off the seats, offers a sight not equaled by the Metropolitan Opera of New York City, where the many tiers rise in a straight line, overtopping each other and hence obstructing the view beneath.

   • 1919 September 4, Elmer Rigdon, “Pangs of Prohibition Are Felt by Newspaper Writers: One Who Loses His Job Because of Lack of Drunkards Waxes Reminiscent of the Days Gone By, Recalling Many Happy Memories”, in Editor & Publisher, volume 52, number 14, New York, N.Y., section “Often Called Upon as an Authority”, page 9:

     I followed the theologian, and while waiting to be introduced, I looked over the fashionable assemblage of fine-look ing men, who knew how to wear a dress suit without embarrassment, and the beautiful, evening-gowned ladies, and I felt honored in being among those present.

   • 2008, J. Diane Pearson, “Peace Chiefs and Diplomats”, in The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 153:

     Joining the tuxedo-clad men and evening-gowned women, Joseph and Yellow Bull moved through the Blue Room receiving line.