Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A costume suited for gala-day festivities; a holiday dress.
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Examples
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They are mostly handsome, many of them fair, the women being particularly gay and picturesque in costume, wearing, when in gala-dress, bright-colored, gold-bespangled scarfs hanging over their heads and shoulders.
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_Fravolata_ or Strawberry-Feast, when men in gala-dress at the height of the strawberry-season went in procession through the streets, carrying on their heads enormous wooden platters heaped with this delicious fruit, accompanied by girls in costume, who, beating their
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The gala-dress of multitudes of women variegated the scene, and they looked like beds of flowers among the white togas of the men.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Hawthorne said: "Happiness may walk soberly in dark attire as well as dance lightsomely in a gala-dress."
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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The livery of the very least among them would have served for the gala-dress of an emperor.
Clarimonde Th��ophile Gautier 1841
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The Globes are only the opening salvo in the event-season gala-dress wars, of course.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The Globes are only the opening salvo in the event-season gala-dress wars, of course.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The Globes are only the opening salvo in the event-season gala-dress wars, of course.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Accordingly, when he came forward in gala-dress as a philosopher, he assumed the serene air of one upon whom all such idle distinctions as rich and poor were literally thrown away.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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This custom, and especially the position assumed by the bride at that time, has given rise to the proverbial expression of comparison: _Pari la zita di lu macadàru_, which is said of a woman in gala-dress. [
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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