morning-dressed en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From morning dress + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In morning dress.
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.
1895 December 7, W. H., “Reporters and Reporting”, in The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, Supplement, number 6,855, page 1:They gaze down at the matchlessly morning-dressed Lord Brentford, at Lord Birkenhead, grey-coated and inscrutable.
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:[…]its collection of exotics and normals, cranks and curious, well dressed and ill-dressed and morning-dressed.
1922 September 30, James A. Roy, “Impressions Gained From A Trip Abroad”, in The Kingston Daily Standard, Kingston, Ont., section “Soho”, page 17: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.
1981 July 24, Nicholas Hills, “A discreet man’s head is safe”, in The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, B.C., page A4: