Formal

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NOUN

a lavish dance requiring formal attire

a gown for evening wear

ADJ

being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)

characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms

represented in simplified or symbolic form

logically deductive

refined or imposing in manner or appearance

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