dressed
English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]dressed
- simple past and past participle of dress
- the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
Adjective
[edit]dressed (not comparable)
- Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared. [from 14th c.]
- Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing. [from 16th c.]
- Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word). [from 17th c.]
- (in combination) Wearing a dress.
- 1972, The Colorado Lawyer, page 26:
- No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band.
- 1980, Calamus, page 8:
- hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons
- 1999, Leslie Thomas, Other Times, →ISBN, page 3:
- She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.
Synonyms
[edit]- (wearing clothes): clothed, raimented; see also Thesaurus:clothed
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]having clothes on
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