ballgown
Speech parts
1. ballgown - Noun
2. ballgown - Verb
Meaning
ballgown (plural ballgowns)
A formal gown to be worn by women to balls and similar social events.
Synonym: balldress
ballgown (third-person singular simple present ballgowns, present participle ballgowning, simple past and past participle ballgowned)
(intransitive, UK, live action roleplaying games) To roleplay romance as part of a roleplaying game.
She'll take any excuse to ballgown!
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Examples
Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning. ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown.
Anna’s sumptuous black velvet ballgown, though revealing of her arms and bosom, is understood by the admiring Kitty to be “just a frame” because her “loveliness consisted precisely in always standing out from what she wore.”
Clad in a white ballgown and accompanied by only a pianist, a tearful Lovato started and stopped the performance in the beginning, clearly overwhelmed with emotion.
Later, in the holding cell with other demonstrators, she realized her leg was bleeding, staining her ballgown.
Taking to the stage in a dramatic white ballgown with only a pianist to accompany her, Lovato started off shakily, needing to restart her first lines as a tear rolled down her face.
The floral design on her ballgown was close to hypnotizing with its black, pink, and white patterns, so a subtle shoe choice totally made sense.