mini dress
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈmɪni drɛs/
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minivestido
- She looked stunning in her new mini dress at the summer party.
- a tight mini dress
- a little mini dress
First up, I have this adorable mini dress from Ocali.
- First up, I have this adorable mini dress from Ocali.
- It is an Amelia Wickstead pink mini dress.
- This is the Jacques Mousse sash mini dress.
- So it's like a red burgundy high neck sort of strappy dress and you'll see there's a lot better in the try on clips, but it is like a mini dress.
Examples
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It's a short little mini dress, I just need to find the right fabric.
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OK, so the next thing is the body con LS mini dress in grey.
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Next one, bring the drama mini dress in white.
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>> What are you putting her in, the mini dress or the pants?
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But this is a mini dress body con style thing.
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First up, I have this adorable mini dress from Ocali.
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>> My second look is gonna be a really tight mini dress with beautiful chiffon sleeves.
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Christine Baranski is a sixty-year-old woman in a mini dress.
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Beautiful hostesses donned fashion-forward mini dresses and high-heeled boots, served up cocktails and chef-prepared lunches, and when one of them delivered the seat belt instructions, people actually listened.
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Women kit themselves out with any number of too-cute-for-words polka-dot dresses, complete with bright red lipstick, naturally, along with mini dresses and skirts with seamed nylon stockings.
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Synonyms
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3.2
A very short dress that ends well above the knees
Antonyms
How Short
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase 'mini dress' is directly compositional: 'mini' specifies a very short hemline and 'dress' names the garment, so the combined meaning 'a very short dress' is immediately predictable. Adjective + noun compounding is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Mini dress is a compound noun that puts together the words mini and dress. One popular story says that in the 1960s fashion makers began making dresses much shorter, and people called these new short garments mini dresses. That's why mini dress now means a dress that is 'very short'.