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Meaning of overdresser | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

One who overdresses.

Examples

Young men generally have a horror of girls who make them conspicuous, who are flamboyant about cosmetics, who are poseurs, overdressers, who, when asked to a beer party, insist on milk or a highball[…]”
“An obsessive overdresser, I was often observed even on summer days wearing a flannel shirt, woolen coat, suit, and atrocious-looking shoes made in Russia.”
Good to see that portraying the French as poncey overdressers delights a 21st-century audience as much as it must have done the Elizabethan groundlings.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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