Meaning of dress | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. acronym of drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms or drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
3. An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes a skirt below the waist.
   countable, uncountable
4. An item of outer clothing or set of such clothes (worn by people of all sexes) which is generally decorative and appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
   countable, uncountable
5. To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner
6. Any item of clothing, or an outfit.
   India, broadly, countable, uncountable
7. To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone)
8. Ellipsis of dress rehearsal.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
9. To arrange or style (someone's hair)
10. Apparel or clothing, especially when appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
    countable, uncountable
11. The act of putting on clothes, especially fashionable ones, or for a particular (especially formal) occasion.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
12. The external covering of an animal (for example, the feathers of a bird) or an object.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
13. The appearance of an object after it has undergone some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use; finish.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
14. The external appearance of something, especially if intended to give a positive impression; garb, guise.
    broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
15. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
    archaic, broadly, countable, historical, uncountable
16. The act of applying a dressing to or otherwise treating a wound; also, the dressing so applied.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses.”

“She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.”

“I have been thinking, George, of changing our travelling dreſſes in the morning. I am grown confoundedly aſhamed of mine.”

“No good historical painting ever yet existed, or ever can exist, where the dresses of the people of the time are not beautiful: […]”

“He wore a bright orange dress to the office yesterday.”

“military dress”

“He came to the party in formal dress.”

“Till I ſhall ſee you in your Souldiers dreſſe, / Which will become you both: Farewell.”

“[I]t is a kind of acting to go into masquerade, and a man should be able to say or do things proper for the dress in which he appears. We have now and then rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of rakes.”

“Your black silk frock will be quite dress enough, my dear, with that pretty little scarf, and a plain band in your hair, and a pair of black silk stock— […]”

“Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.”

“When the adults [i.e., birds] of both sexes have a distinct winter and summer plumage, whether or not the male differs from the female, the young resemble the adults of both sexes in their winter dress or much more rarely in their summer dress, or they resemble the females alone; or the young may have an intermediate character; or again they may differ greatly from the adults in both their seasonal plumages.”

“Sir, although / VVe may be ſaid to vvant the guilt, and trappings, / The dreſſe of Honor; yet vve ſtriue to keepe, / The ſeedes, and the Materialls.”

“[…] Eloquence, the Dreſs of our Thoughts, like the Dreſs of our Bodies, differs not only in ſeveral Regions, but in ſeveral Ages.”

“He has indeed reſcued it [i.e., learning] out of the hands of Pedants and Fools, and diſcover'd the true method of making it amiable and lovely to all mankind: In the dreſs he gives it, 'tis a moſt welcome gueſt at Tea-tables and Aſſemblies, and is reliſh'd and careſſed by the Merchants on the Change; […]”

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