| 释义 |
new-dress, v.
[new adv. 5, 6.]
trans. To dress afresh; to put a new dressing on. Also absol.
1611Cotgr., Raccoustré,..new dressed or trimmed vp. 1700Watts Horæ Lyr., Mourning Piece, The wishing Muse new-dresses the fair garden. 1741Lady Pomfret Lett. (1805) III. 110, I returned home to new dress. 1795Washington Lett. Writ. 1892 XIII. 84 By the time it is revised and new dressed [etc.]. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxv. 16 A verse I tender of ancient Battiades, new-drest. |