dinner-dress

She was enveloped in a loose dressing-gown of blue and silver, but a black sequin-covered dinner-dress lay upon the couch beside her.

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange. 1991

And it was said that if she wanted to romp with her dogs in all her finery, she did it; she was known to have ridden horseback, one moonlight night, all around the plantation in a white silk dinner-dress flounced with Alençon.

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

Again on a dinner-dress of black Chantilly lace, over white chiffon (Empire lines),

Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank

As to the bride, she was debating to herself whether she should have the body of her wedding-dress cut V or square when she left it with her dressmaker to be altered into a dinner-dress.

Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron

I had never taken off my dinner-dress -- my candles were nearly burned down -- the clock struck five -- in two hours it would be daylight.

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

She had donned, for the first time since her illness, a dinner-dress of rosy silk, its sweeping train and elbow sleeves enriched with flounces of black lace.

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Lawrence L. Lynch

If Miss Brown had made any effort to sleep, she would not still have been wearing a black lace dinner-dress at half-past twelve.

The Key Wentworth, Patricia 1944

She had put on the low-necked and tightly-laced dinner-dress which the Mingott ceremonial exacted on the most informal occasions, and had built her fair hair into its usual accumulated coils; and her face, in contrast, was wan and almost faded.

The Age of Innocence 1920

She had put on the low-necked and tightly-laced dinner-dress which the Mingott ceremonial exacted on the most informal occasions, and had built her fair hair into its usual accumulated coils; and her face, in contrast, was wan and almost faded.

XXX. Book II 1920

The problem of a dinner-dress was solved for her almost at once by Jocelyn himself.

The Tragic Bride Francis Brett Young 1919