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noun [C] (PART OF DRESS)
 
 
/treɪn/

Definition

the part of a long dress that spreads out onto the floor behind the person wearing it: an elaborate wedding dress with a long trainDecorations added to clothes
(Definition of train noun (PART OF DRESS) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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