Evening gowns are worn at various semi-formal black-tie (and sometimes white tie) functions, including formal dinners, opera and theater premieres, formal dances, evening wedding receptions, and charity balls
Here is some of the little which I have found, most of it from Sarthe
An excellent chronicler of life in Brittany a hundred and thirty years ago, O
Choosing a wedding dress is one of the most exciting parts of wedding planning
Pronunciation [edit] (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA (key) : /des/ (Standard Southern British, General American) enPR: drs, IPA (key) : /ds/ (New Zealand) IPA (key) : /ds/ (Scotland, Wales) IPA (key) : /ds/ Rhymes: -s Verb [edit] dress ( third-person singular simple present dresses , present participle dressing , simple past dressed , past participle dressed or (obsolete) drest ) (transitive) (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.)