Usually means: Formal, elegant dress for events.
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  1. ballgown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. ballgown: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ballgown: Wordnik
  4. ballgown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. ballgown: Wiktionary
  6. Ballgown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. ballgown: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. ballgown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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noun:  A formal gown to be worn by women to balls and similar social events.
verb:  (intransitive, UK, live action roleplaying games) To roleplay romance as part of a roleplaying game.

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