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dressed

adjective

  1. to put on clothes, decorate, covering, wearing clothes
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛst/

adj

  1. Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
  2. Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
  3. Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
  4. Wearing a dress.

    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.

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

verb

  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

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