cross-dressing

See also: crossdressing

English

Alternative forms

• crossdressing

Etymology

Calque of German Transvestismus.

Noun

cross-dressing (uncountable)

1. The wearing of clothing which society considers appropriate for the opposite sex rather than the wearer's sex.
2. (immunology) Display by antigen-presenting cells of antigens obtained from the surface of infected cells.
   • 2011 April 21, Olive Leavy, “Cross-dress to impress”, in Nature Reviews Immunology, volume 11, number 302, →DOI:

     Now, a study published in Nature shows that cross-dressing does indeed occur and is important for boosting memory CD8+ T cell responses in vivo.

Derived terms

• crossplay

 

Verb

cross-dressing

1. present participle and gerund of cross-dress

Synonyms

• CDing, CD-ing
• x-dressing
• transvestism

Translations

wearing clothes of the opposite gender

• Afrikaans: kruiskleding
• Albanian: ndërveshja
• Catalan: transformisme
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變裝／变装 (biànzhuāng), 異裝／异装 (zh) (yìzhuāng), 易裝／易装 (yìzhuāng), 反串 (zh) (fǎnchuàn) (in a theatrical performance)

• Dutch: travestie (nl) f
• Finnish: ristiinpukeutuminen (fi)
• French: transformisme (fr)
• Georgian: ქროს-დრესინგი (kros-dresingi)
• Greek: παρενδυσία (el) (parendysía)
• Hungarian: keresztöltözésnek
• Indonesian: berlintas-busana
• Irish: trasghléasadh
• Japanese: 男装 (ja) (だんそう, dansō) (cross-dressing as a man), 女装 (ja) (じょそう, josō) (cross-dressing as a woman)
• Korean: 크로스드레싱 (keuroseudeuresing), 시디 (ko) (sidi), 남장 (ko) (namjang) (cross-dressing as a man), 여장 (ko) (yeojang) (cross-dressing as a woman)
• Polish: crossdressing (pl) m
• Portuguese: transformismo (pt)
• Russian: кроссдре́ссинг (ru) m (krossdréssing)
• Spanish: transformismo (es) m, transvestismo m, trasvestismo m, travestismo (es) m
• Ukrainian: кросдре́синг m (krosdrésynh), крос-дре́синг m (kros-drésynh)