morning-dressed

English

Etymology

From morning dress +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

morning-dressed (not comparable)

1. In morning dress.
   • 1895 December 7, W. H., “Reporters and Reporting”, in The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, Supplement, number 6,855, page 1:

     If at considerable inconvenience, he puts on evening dress for some banquet or special function, he will find himself, at the last moment, bundled off in his war paint to report a hastily-convened labour deputation to a Cabinet Minister, the banquet having to be attended by a morning-dressed colleague who immediately assumes the frame of mind and temper of the concert scribe referred to.

   • 1922 September 30, James A. Roy, “Impressions Gained From A Trip Abroad”, in The Kingston Daily Standard, Kingston, Ont., section “Soho”, page 17:

     […] its collection of exotics and normals, cranks and curious, well dressed and ill-dressed and morning-dressed.

   • 1929 July 25, “How the Lords Staged the Egypt Drama: Labour Peers Under Fire. The Drama as it was Unfolded to a “Stranger.””, in Evening Standard, number 32,746, London, section “Conversational Lord Parmoor”, page 3:

     They gaze down at the matchlessly morning-dressed Lord Brentford, at Lord Birkenhead, grey-coated and inscrutable.

   • 1981 July 24, Nicholas Hills, “A discreet man’s head is safe”, in The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, B.C., page A4:

     He was concluding one of the touchiest royal occasions in recent memory, an anonymous morning-dressed figure taking the black-gloved hand with a formal shake.