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dressed, drest, ppl. a.|drɛst|
[f. dress v. + -ed1.]
† Straightened (obs.); prepared; clothed, attired, etc. (also with up): see the verb.
1382Wyclif Luke iii. 5 Schrewide thingis schulen be in to dressid thingis. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 99 Delycates or deynty dressed meates. 1612W. Strachey Virginia (1849) ii. 184/1 Apron or any kind of dressed leather. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 7 Shirts, made of drest deer-skins. 1793J. Williams Life Ld. Barrymore (ed. 3) 20 We had a dressed rehearsal. 1798,1815[see undressed ppl. a. 8 b, 7]. 1851Offic. Catal. Gt. Exhib. I. 130 Specimens of dressed oilstones. 1862G. Borrow Wild Wales I. ix. 92 Whenever I go to Chester, and a dressedup madam jostles against me, I shall call her carn-butein. 1870‘Mark Twain’ Sk. New & Old (1875) 244 He murdered them ‘in his splendid dresssed-stone mansion’. 1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. ii. 54 The best dressed mutton..was selling at 2½d. to 23/4d. per lb. 1906L. Stanfield (song title) All dressed up like a hippodrome horse. 1908–9T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall & Winter 310/1 Fine dressed dolls, beautifully dressed. 1912G. Whiting (song title) When you're all dressed up and have no place to go. 1940W. Shewring Topics ix. 100 Isocrates and Demosthenes..are types of the pretentious bad artist—‘all dressed up and nowhere to go’. 1963‘Han Suyin’ Four Faces 54 She bent to smile at the dressed total face in the mirror. 1971Timber Trades Jrnl. 21 Aug. 16/1 Prior to adoption of the new standards sizes for dressed lumber have been the same regardless of the moisture content. |