evening gown

noun

: a long, formal dress that is worn to evening parties or events

Examples of evening gown in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This dress was the last evening gown Diana wore publicly before a car accident in Paris took her life two months later. —Rachel Burchfield, Vogue, 20 May 2025

The 24-year-old competed in the interview, evening gown and swimsuit portions of the competition, and entered the event ranked No. 7 in the pageant’s online voting system. —Durham Herald-Sun, Boston Herald, 12 May 2025

The company’s wildly popular exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair featured a shapely Miss Chemistry rising out of a test tube in a nylon evening gown and stockings. —Mariah Blake, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025

Pieces on view included a curving white bouquet beside a marble angel sculpture, a floral tower next to a vintage evening gown, and a colorful arrangement inside a red shoe mirroring a painting of a shoe shiner. —Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for evening gown

• adown
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• countdown
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• crosstown
• downtown
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• dropdown
• facedown
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• hometown