Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dress worn by a bride at her wedding.
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Examples
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Tomorrow I travel to Pittsburgh with Bun and Ellis for a wedding-dress fitting.
"That was cool back when it was first out." tragic_elegance 2009
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At first itwasall men, because they'd conceded the wedding-dress trade to the women's shop down the street, but when Carmen was in tenth grade her mother prodded her father into taking over the small store next to theirs.
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He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked in water.
Sole Music 2010
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It is apparent that Virginia already commanded a circle of loving admirers: Bobby Throckmorton, teasing slender Virginia for worrying that she had looked overweight in her blue wedding-dress, sent a present of chocolates to his ‘Dear Fat Girl’ the following month, accompanied, he told her, by ‘love and passion’.
Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009
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Emotionally, it can be hard to downsize a wedding-dress dream.
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Gianpiero Lippolis and a model showing a Giovanna Sbiroli dress in Shanghai There, he visited wedding-dress retailers, checked out products and examined their quality.
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But over the past decade, the company -- one of around 40 small wedding-dress makers in and around this remote hill town -- watched its share of the Italian market drop by 20% as Chinese imports and goods made in other low-cost countries flooded in.
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Married Style to Globalism PUTIGNANO, Italy -- For more than half a century, wedding-dress maker Giovanna Sbiroli SRL built its brand and customer base by serving the Italian market.
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Back in the 1980s when I was in college studying journalism, economics and politics, I really admired the political writing of David Broder -- of course, I also thought Madonna looked drop-dead sexy in that wedding-dress get-up, so what the hell did I know?
Bob Geiger: Democratic Caucus Puts Smackdown on David Broder 2008
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In a montage of wedding-dress fittings, she honors “new friends like Vera Wang and Carolina Herrera and Christian Lacroix, Lanvin and Dior,” and so on; what I object to is not the name-dropping—think of it as a chick response to “American Psycho”—but the montage itself, which is shot in lazy veils of schmaltz.
Sexist Review of the Day Melissa Silverstein 2008
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