dressed
adjective
- to put on clothes, decorate, covering, wearing clothes
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛst/
adj
- Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
- Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
- Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
- 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
- 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.”