Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dress of plain and serviceable material and commodious fit, to be worn in traveling.
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Examples
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She stands next the bride to receive with her, and also retires with her to assist the latter in exchanging her wedding dress for the traveling-dress.
The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions Walter Cox Green
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Here was a pretty young lady, in a rough blue traveling-dress and a hat and feather, who was engaged in picking up wild-flowers from the warm heath.
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They were seated on the sofa, the black broadcloth coat-sleeve encircling the slender waist of the gray traveling-dress, and the jetty moustache in equally affectionate proximity to the glossy curls.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The traveling-dress, made up for so different an occasion, was donned, and under escort she went, by a hundred miles of horseback ride, to the nearest railway station.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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She was advised to change her traveling-dress for a riding-suit -- out somewhere in a cold, windy desert -- in the middle of the night -- among strange young man!
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Thea wore her new blue serge traveling-dress, chosen for its serviceable qualities.
The song of the lark 1915
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Thea wore her new blue serge traveling-dress, chosen for its serviceable quali - ties.
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Thea wore her new blue serge traveling-dress, chosen for its serviceable qualities.
The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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She was advised to change her traveling-dress for a riding-suit -- out somewhere in a cold, windy desert -- in the middle of the night -- among strange young men!
The Man of the Forest Zane Grey 1905
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Laura, rosy as a bride should be, and actually attractive to me for the first time in her life, sat in her traveling-dress trying to look matter-of-fact, and discussing time-tables with her bridegroom, who seemed to find less and less of dream and more of the actual in the situation, -- calm returning with the cutaway.
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893
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