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Word: gown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike their escorts, however, female ball-goers face a dizzying array of apparel choices. Basically, anything that wouldn't look ridiculous beside a tuxedo goes. Gown lengths range from floor length to well above the knee, and most dresses are usually made of some combination of lace, taffeta, silk, satin and velvet...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Looking Your Best For Harvard's Biggest Ball | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...wearing a full length violet lace gown with a short black Laura Ashley jacket. I bought it over the summer specifically for [the ball]," says Quincy resident Patricia Yurchack...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Looking Your Best For Harvard's Biggest Ball | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

Since the ball will be held outside, a number of women are debating whether it will be sensible, let alone appropriate, to wear a strapless gown...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Looking Your Best For Harvard's Biggest Ball | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...look just below that power line. See the dark spot? That's Jesus' head. You can't make out the face. Now see his gown? Good. Now just down on the left is the little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: a Vision West of Town | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...relationship between Harvard and Cambridge should not be a tale of two cities, a story of the haves and the have nots. For the marriage between town and academic gown cannot last another 350 years if Cambridge's largest institution stands in isolation from the rest of the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Cities | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

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