trapeze dress

noun

A woman's dress with a trapezoid shape, widening towards the waist and legs.

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Meanings

nountrapeze dress (plural trapeze dresses)

plural trapeze dresses

  1. A woman's dress with a trapezoid shape, widening towards the waist and legs.

    She wore thrift-store clothes that tended not to flatter her—a man's plaid polyester leisure suit, a paisley trapeze dress, gray Mr. Goodwrench coveralls with the name Randy embroidered on the left front pocket.

    2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trapeze dress,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trapeze%20dress.

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