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well(-)dressed, ppl. a.
1. Clothed in good and becoming attire.
1576R. Peterson G. della Casa's Galateo 20 They be neuer redie: euer a trimming: neuer well dressed to their mindes. 1712–14Pope Rape of Lock ii. 5 Fair Nymphs and well-drest Youths around her shone. 1791Boswell Johnson 19 Sept. 1777, A well-drest elderly housekeeper..shewed us the house. 1849James Woodman iv, This was no well-dressed and splendid assemblage. 1876Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims ii. Wks. (Bohn) III. 177 The lady who declared ‘that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow’.
2. Properly prepared, cultivated, trimmed, cooked, etc.
1693Congreve Juv. Sat. xi. 136 Scarce a Slave, but has to Dinner now, The well-dress'd Paps of a fat pregnant Sow. 1768Boswell Corsica (ed. 2) 280 At dinner we had no less than twelve well-drest dishes. 1771Encycl. Brit. (ed. 1) II. 211/2 The wool must be of a good quality, and well dressed. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 465 The sloping banks of the Tay are finely wooded, with well⁓dressed walks on the top. Ibid. 470 Surrounded with well dressed fields to the south. |