Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dress for the street; especially, at the present time, such a dress for women, as distinguished from a dinner-dress, an evening-dress, etc.

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Examples

  • I have to content myself with re-reading passages such as:When Serena presently entered the room, she had changed her walking-dress for a robe of clinging black crape, made high to the throat, and relieved only by a little ruff of goffered lawn.

    Great Dresses of Mediocre Literature, Meta-Discussion - A Dress A Day 2008

  • Here she now spread out and fastened a plain dark walking-dress and a few other trifles of apparel.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • “Tonnish females,” as the magazine of fashion called the higher class of popinjays, would have stared with contempt at both Faith and Dolly Darling in their simple walking-dress that day.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • We then came to a cell near the machinery-room, in which we put on our walking-dress.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • She was changing her walking-dress for the dressing-gown.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • She opened it to him in her walking-dress, obedient to the signal agreed on between them which summoned her downstairs.

    No Name 2003

  • She had on a hat and walking-dress, and the dogs were bounding at her feet.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • She had on a hat and walking-dress, and the dogs were bounding at her feet.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • She had on a hat and walking-dress, and the dogs were bounding at her feet.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • Mademoiselle Jeanne in walking-dress, looking, with bright eyes and her most charming smile, at Plumet, who steps back in a fright, and

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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