Definition of "ballgown" [ballgown]

• A formal gown to be worn by women to balls and similar social events. (noun)

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• "She wore the green of her House, deep bottle-green ballgown, grand and beautiful."
• "By fashion standards, Alberta Ferretti's eyelash pleat dress on TV personality Cat Deeley and Monique Lhuillier's rose-covered ballgown, modeled by Garcelle Beauvais, were standouts."
• "Appropriately, given the occasion and the wearer, the pattern was destroyed, allowing Edith Roosevelt a one-of-a-kind ballgown. 1909 saw Mrs. Helen Taft in “one of the handsomest models ever seen in Washington.”"