trapeze dress

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trapeze dress (plural trapeze dresses)

  1. A woman's dress with a trapezoid shape, widening towards the waist and legs.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      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.