Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bedressed en · ADJ

Etymology

From be- + dress + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Clothed; dressed up.
    • […] all bedressed, becurled and befeathered […] 1909, Bengal, Past & Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society, page 472:
  2. (not-comparable) Wearing a dress.
    • While hiding out in a small Italian Village the be-dressed Alban is appalled that he is consigned to the sphere of women's work. 1983 February 12, Michael Bronski, “Tootsie and the Gender Benders”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 13: