formal
/ˈfɔɹ.məl/ noun C2- An evening gown.
- An event with a formal dress code. · Jenny took Sam to her Year 12 formal.
- A formal parameter.
Plural formals
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But you know none are so formal as bankers in transacting business; I intended this money for the charity fund, and I seemed to be robbing them if I did not pay them with these precise bonds.
The two ladies entered the drawing-room with that sort of official stiffness which preludes a formal communication.
This formal announcement, which implied or appeared to imply, the approval of all the persons concerned in this momentous affair, had been preceded by a scene to which our readers must be admitted.
The village sergeant, a tall, formal, melancholy man, still held his vigil in the room of Fate.
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