little black dress

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Noun

little black dress (plural little black dresses)

  1. A simply cut and often quite short evening or cocktail dress.
    • 2012, Rebecca Apsan, Lessons in Lingerie: Finding Your Perfect Shade of Seduction:
      When dressing up for a night out, let's not forget the sex appeal, allure, and slenderizing effect of ultrasheer black hosiery under that little black dress.
  2. (figuratively) Something simple, versatile, and elegant; something that pairs well with many other things.
    Synonym: LBD
    • 2013 April 24, Alexandra Petri, “The peculiar brilliance of that sorority e-mail”, in The Washington Post:
      The F-bomb is the little black dress of vulgarity. Noun, verb, participle, verbal noun — it goes with everything.
    • 2014 August, Sarah Hazelwood, “5 of the Best…Fruits and Vegetables to grow this August”, in Buzz, page 27:
      Who, excepting fictional fanged creatures of the night, doesn't love a bit of garlic? It goes in anything and is like the little black dress of the food world.
    • 2014 August 10, Karen Crouse, “After Tuneup for Trials, American Swimmers Evaluate Potential”, in The New York Times:
      While Phelps might have been the headliner, Ledecky became the little black dress of American swimming; unpretentious, regal and ridiculously versatile.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:little black dress.
  3. (fandom slang) A character who is shipped with many other characters.
    Synonym: fandom bicycle
    • 2018 September 23, Marion Beet (@Knitronomicon), Twitter:
      I've seen Snape/Loki. Little Black Dresses, both of them. They'll go with anybody.
    • 2021 March 24, acequeenking (@acequeenkingpin), Twitter:
      Sansa is SUCH a good little black dress. I honestly would read almost any character in GOT with her.
    • 2021 September 24, captainellie (@captainecomb), Twitter:
      Brienne is my little black dress of GOT/ASOIAF. I am happy to read fic with her shipped with many many many characters.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:little black dress.

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