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shirtdressed en · ADJ

Etymology

From shirtdress + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Wearing a shirtdress.
    • Wonderful go-together jewelry for your shirtdressed summer. 1960 June 28, “Woolf Brothers”, in The Kansas City Times, volume 123, number 154, Kansas City, Mo., page 3:
    • MORE often than not, a man would not even remove his suit and tie for dinner with his family at home — check out episodes of “Leave It to Beaver,” the quintessential ’50s sit-com, and you’ll find good old Ward Cleaver buttoned up, while shirtdressed June Cleaver serves dinner to the boys in chinos. 1987 January 18, John Mariani, “The Not-So-Fabulous ’50s”, in The Newsday Magazine, page 26:
    • The slim shirtdressed silhouette—an important, flattering shape! 1955 December 21, “Franklin Simon”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 253, number 174, Triangle Publications Inc., page 8: