morning dress

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Noun

morning dress (countable and uncountable, plural morning dresses)

1. (now historical) A woman's dress designed for informal day wear.
2. (uncountable) Clothing to be worn in the morning or daytime, as opposed to the evening; now (specifically), a man's formal suit consisting of a (usually) dark grey morning coat, waistcoat and striped trousers accompanied with a top hat, white shirt and tie or cravat.

   Morning dress can be worn up to 5:00 pm.

Synonyms

• morning suit

Coordinate terms

• black tie
• business attire
• casual dress
• informal
• white tie

Translations

man's formal suit

• Afrikaans: oggendpak
• Finnish: saketti (fi)
• French: jaquette (fr) f
• German: Cutaway (de) m
• Portuguese: fraque m
• Spanish: chaqué m, chaquet m
• Swedish: jackett (sv) c, förmiddagsdräkt c