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cocktail dress

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Noun1.cocktail dresscocktail dress - a dress suitable for formal occasions
dress, frock - a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice


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MARLENE DIETRICH (March 29, 1951): Dietrich received a standing ovation when she presented the award for foreign language film wearing this jaw-dropping black satin cocktail dress.
All this is related in a sort of fevered dream, in Block's unique, darkly evocative style: think of a sad but beautiful Goth girl wearing velvet, or, as in this book, "my mother's green satin cocktail dress .
Occasionally a woman will wear a cocktail dress or will desperately need to, ahem, button up.
 
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