ballgown
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a special long dress worn by a woman for dancing at a ball (=a formal social event)
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a tight silk dress with a high neck, short sleeves, and a slit (=long narrow space) on each side by the leg that is worn by Chinese and Indonesian women
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a long dress that a woman wears when she goes to an important social event in the evening
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a colourful cloth, originally from East Africa, that women wear wrapped around their bodies like a long dress
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a very long wide piece of cloth, especially silk, that women in India wrap around their bodies to make a type of long dress
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a long wide piece of cloth that is tied around the waist to make a skirt or at the shoulder to make a dress. It is worn by men and women in Malaysia and some other countries.
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a piece of clothing for a woman or girl. It hangs from the waist and is not joined between the legs
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a dress made of a light thin cloth such as silk with no sleeves and narrow pieces of cloth going over the shoulders
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a piece of cloth that a woman wears around her waist as a skirt or around her shoulders as a shawl
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