dress
61dress up — verb a) To wear fancy dress. Everyone dressed up for the graduation ball. b) To wear a costume. I want a job where I dont have to dress up. Ant: dress down …
62dress — Synonyms and related words: Mother Hubbard, accouter, adorn, anoint, apparel, appoint, arm, armory, arrange, array, attire, backset, badge, badge of office, badges, ballet skirt, bandage, bathe, baton, bawl out, beautify, bedeck, bedizen,… …
63dress — [14] Dress originally meant literally ‘put right, put straight’. It comes via Old French dresser from Vulgar Latin *dīrectiāre, a derivative of Latin dīrectus ‘straight’ (from which English gets direct). Traces of this underlying sense survive in …
64dress — 1. Garment. Lole, a ahu. ♦ To dress others, komo, komo lole, hō a ahu. ♦ Types of dresses: holokū, mu umu u, pukikī, ōkolepu u. ♦ To dress up, as in one s best, kāhiko, linohau, pa ihi, hao ā pa ihi, haukalī. ♦ Have you dressed yet? …
65dress — [14] Dress originally meant literally ‘put right, put straight’. It comes via Old French dresser from Vulgar Latin *dīrectiāre, a derivative of Latin dīrectus ‘straight’ (from which English gets direct). Traces of this underlying sense survive in …
66dress — The clothes of men and women during the biblical periods in Palestine are not described in any detail, but they probably resembled those of neighbouring peoples, of which illustrations exist. They were worn both for warmth and sometimes for their …
67dress — 1. verb 1) he dressed quickly Syn: put on clothes, clothe oneself, get dressed 2) she was dressed in a suit Syn: clothe, attire, deck out; informal get up 3) she enjoyed dressing the tree …
68dress-up — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: dress up : a situation or time requiring the wearing of good clothes a dress up occasion …
69dress up — {v.} 1a. To put on best or special clothes. * /Billy hated being dressed up and took off his best suit as soon as he got home from church./ 1b. To put on a costume for fun or clothes for a part in a play. * /Mary was dressed up to play Cinderella …
70dress up — {v.} 1a. To put on best or special clothes. * /Billy hated being dressed up and took off his best suit as soon as he got home from church./ 1b. To put on a costume for fun or clothes for a part in a play. * /Mary was dressed up to play Cinderella …
