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English
Adjective
ballgowned (not comparable)
- Alternative form of ball-gowned
1990, Susan Tyrrell, Once Upon a Town: Susan Tyrrell about Stavanger, Dreyer Bok, page 95:[…] finally ready, they stood like petticoated, ballgowned ladies around the room, ready to be lifted on their rods into place above the windows.
1991, John Canemaker, “Hollywood on the Hudson”, in Felix: The Twisted Tale of the World’s Most Famous Cat, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 11:Neighbors dressed in the gray and blue uniforms of Civil War soldiers walked alongside bewigged and ballgowned prerevolutionary “French aristocrats.”
2007 January 26, Emily Nunn, “Watkins: From opera stage to the battlefield”, in Chicago Tribune, 160th year, number 26, section 5, page 4:“That’s my call,” he said, over the music, then began making his way back toward the stage, through the back halls, where a double-wide elevator door opened and unloaded a gaggle of ballgowned women in big hair and men in waistcoats and tails.
Verb
ballgowned
- simple past and past participle of ballgown