dinner-gown

He closed his eyes, and instantly saw Irene in her emerald-green dinner-gown, standing in the Park Lane hall, first feast after their honeymoon, waiting to be cloaked!

Passers By 2004

I had no idea that there were shops on shabby avenues, where one could get an infinitesimal portion of what one paid for a last season's dinner-gown; that furs are a wiser investment than satin and lace; and that my single emerald could be more easily turned into dollars and cents than all the enameled jewelry I owned put together.

The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928

Hal's gaze travelled on, and came to a grey-haired lady in a black dinner-gown, with a rope of pearls about her neck.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

Tonight, I'd like a bath, just a tiny bit scented, and a real dressing-table with a triple mirror, and French talc, and come down in a dinner-gown ---- Oh, I have enjoyed the trip, Jeff.

Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

I'd rather wear a dinner-gown than an apron; I'd a damn sight rather spin a roulette wheel than rock

Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

Then she fetched the dinner-gown, floated it about Kedzie as delicately as if it were a ring of smoke, hooked it, snapped it, and murmured little compliments that were more tonic than cocktails.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

In her white dinner-gown and with a few violet pansies at her breast, she looked, I thought, particularly charming.

Five Nights Victoria Cross 1910

I remember my aunt's first dinner-gown very brightly, and how she stood before the fire in the drawing-room confessing once unsuspected pretty arms with all the courage she possessed, and looking over her shoulder at herself in a mirror.

Tono Bungay 1906

Violet came down the great staircase a few moments later, still in her dinner-gown, her face a little pale, her eyes luminous.

The Double Four 1906

She wore a plain but elegant dinner-gown of some dark material.

The Great Secret 1906