dressed

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

dressed

1. simple past and past participle of dress

   the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

dressed (not comparable)

1. Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared. [from 14th c.]
2. Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing. [from 16th c.]
3. Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word). [from 17th c.]
4. (in combination) Wearing a dress.
   • 1972, The Colorado Lawyer, page 26:

     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.

   • 1980, Calamus, page 8:

     hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons

   • 1999, Leslie Thomas, Other Times, →ISBN, page 3:

     She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.

• (wearing clothes): clothed, raimented; see also Thesaurus:clothed

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