transitive. To line, trim, or cover (a garment) with fur.

transitive. To decorate (something) with buttons, jewels, or similar ornaments. Chiefly in past participle with with.

transitive. To lace (a garment). Obsolete.

transitive. To fasten or lace (an item of clothing) with tagged points or laces; to fit or adorn with such points. Obsolete.

To pleat (a ruff); to arrange the pleats of (a gown). Obsolete.

transitive. To furnish with a tuft or tufts.

transitive. To trim the openings or slits of (a garment). Cf. fent, v.

transitive (chiefly in past participle). To form into a ruff; to provide with a ruff or ruffs. Also with adverb (esp. up) or adverbial phrase. Cf…

transitive. To decorate (a garment or the like) with spangles.

? To furnish or adorn (a garment) with strings or ties. Obsolete.

transitive. To provide with a body (body, n. 4c).

transitive. To draw the lining out through slashes in (a sleeve or garment) so as to display it. Usually as past participle, with with. Cf. pulling…

transitive. To pad, line, or cover with material, using a method similar to that employed in making a quilt. Also (occasionally): to cover with a…

To form flutes (flute, n.1 4 5) in; to furnish with flutings; to arrange a dress, etc. in flutes.

To furnish or ornament with an inserted seam; also, of a material, to serve as a seam for.

transitive. To lightly sprinkle or cover (a surface); esp. to decorate (the material of a garment) with a scattering of small ornaments. Usually in p…

transitive. To trim (something) too much; to adorn with too many trimmings. Also (occasionally) intransitive.

transitive. To draw together in a ruffle or ruffles; (also) to trim or decorate with ruffles. Chiefly as past participle.

transitive. To furnish or mark with or as with a tag (in various senses).

transitive. To ornament with a furbelow, or with something resembling a furbelow.

To put a tuck or tucks in; to shorten or ornament with tucks.

To adorn or trim with a flounce or with flounces; also transferred.

transitive. To decorate (clothing, soft furnishings) with a thin cord covered in fabric. Usually in passive. Also in extended use. Cf. piping, n.2 8.

To turn up at the skirts.

transitive. To trim with a ruche or pleat of fabric. Also figurative. Only in passive.

transitive. To make or arrange (an article of clothing, piece of fabric, etc.) so as to hang loosely in a pouch-like form.

transitive. To ornament or fit (a garment) with a panel or panels; (of a textile) to be or form a decorative panel for. Also intransitive. Now rare.

transitive. To cut (trousers or other articles of clothing) off short. Also with off. North American.

Of a human agent. transitive. To design (a costume, a clothing collection, etc.): see creation, n. 1c. Also: to design and execute a scheme of…

transitive. To pin (esp. a garment) into position during fitting or construction.

Dressmaking. To join two pieces of material whose edges are of unequal length in such a way that the extra fullness of the larger section is…

transitive. To shape (a garment, esp. an item of hosiery) by heating on a form before dyeing.

transitive. To shape a garment by heating it on a form after it has been dyed. Cf. pre-board, v.1