Dress
11dress|y — «DREHS ee», adjective, dress|i|er, dress|i|est. Informal. 1. fond of wearing showy clothes: »... especially the gangsters, who were always the dressiest of the lot (Atlantic) …
12Dress Me Up — may refer to: Dress Me Up! (album), an album by Denise Ho Dress Me Up (song), a song by Olivia Lufkin This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you her …
13dress — UK US /dres/ noun [U] ► clothes of a particular type, especially those worn in a particular situation: »business/casual/formal dress »Nursing and biology students are expected to wear scrubs and other appropriate dress to work in a lab …
14Dress — der; u. es, österr. auch die; , en <aus engl. dress »Kleidung« zu to dress »herrichten, aufmachen«; vgl. ↑dressieren> besondere Kleidung (z. B. Sportkleidung) …
15dress up — dress (something) up to make something look better or different than it really is. No matter how you dress it up, the fact is that we lost. His business record is a string of failures dressed up as successes. Usage notes: often followed by as, as …
16Dress — Dress: Der seit dem 19. Jh. bezeugte Ausdruck für »‹Sport›kleidung« ist aus engl. dress »Aufmachung« entlehnt. Das engl. Wort ist eine Substantivierung zu to dress »herrichten, aufmachen«, das auf frz. dresser (vgl. ↑ dressieren) zurückgeht …
17dress up — [v] put on one’s best clothes array, attire, beautify, clothe, deck out*, embellish, fit out*, fix up, gussy up*, improve, overdress, preen, prettify, primp, prink, slick, smarten, spiff up*, spruce up*, titivate; concept 167 Ant. dress casually …
18dress up — ► dress up dress in smart or formal clothes, or in a special costume. Main Entry: ↑dress …
19DRESS — Dress is a rich source of information on culture, gender, and attitudes to the body, as well as on related technologies such as textiles, over the full period of development of the Etruscans. In the early Orientalizing phase (circa 750 to 600… …
20dress up — dress in smart clothes or in a special costume. → dress …
