dressed en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈdɹɛst/
- (US) audio
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
- (not-comparable) Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
- (not-comparable) Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
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(in-compounds, not-comparable) Wearing a dress.
hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons
1980, Calamus, page 8: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.
1972, The Colorado Lawyer, page 26:She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.
1999, Leslie Thomas, Other Times, →ISBN, page 3:
Deriveds
power-dressed · mutton dressed up as lamb · brain-dressed · nondressed · full-dressed · overdressed · dressed up · morning-dressed · hammer-dressed · well-dressed · mutton dressed as lamb · evening-dressed · underdressed · dressed to kill · rough-dressed · dressed herring · all dressed · get dressed · dressed to the nines · all-dressed · cladly dressed · halfdressed
Synonyms
clothed (wearing clothes) · raimented
Translations (10)
de bekleidet\ (having clothes on) · ru оде́тый (having clothes on) · nl aangekleed (having clothes on) · fi pukeutunut (having clothes on) · fr vêtu (having clothes on) · de gekleidet (having clothes on) · fr habillé (having clothes on) · pl ubrany (having clothes on) · mi mau kākahu (having clothes on) · la amictus (having clothes on)