cocktail dress

cocktail dress

English

A woman wears a blue cocktail dress.

Etymology

Apparently coined by Christian Dior in the late 1940s to refer to early-evening wear.

Noun

cocktail dress (plural cocktail dresses)

1. A type of women's evening dress suitable for semi-formal occasions or cocktail parties.

Translations

woman's evening dress suitable for cocktail parties

Chinese: Mandarin: 小禮服, 小礼服 (xiǎolǐfú) Finnish: cocktail-mekko Hungarian: koktélruha (hu)

Japanese: カクテルドレス (kakuteru doresu) Russian: выходно́е пла́тье n (vyxodnóje plátʹje) Spanish: vestido de cóctel m