A woman's dress that is too elegant, revealing, dressy or impractical for normal wear.

A single telephone line which is shared by two or more households. / The official policy of a political party or other organization.

(derogatory) A new political party that sprouts up quickly before an election, but proves short-lived.

(mycology) A veil which covers the mushroom gills from the edge of the cap to the stem.

(law) An award granted by a court in a legal proceeding to one party requiring another party to pay an amount of the first party's legal costs, excluding lawyer fees.

(idiomatic) A person known for frequent, enthusiastic attendance at parties, especially one whose partying behavior is exuberant or excessive.

(mathematics) A collection of non-negative-valued functions defined on a topological space, such that every point has only finitely many nonzero values, and these sum to one.

(idiomatic) A person who participates in entertainment events in a very enthusiastic manner and who has a leading role in inspiring others to join in the spirit of festivity.

(Catholic canon law) Any of the individual constituent hierarchically ordered ecclesial communities in full communion with Rome that are part of the Catholic Church as a whole.

plural of particular Church