dressed
adj/ˈdɹɛst/
1
Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
2
Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
3
Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
4
In compounds Wearing a dress.
- No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band.1972, The Colorado Lawyer, page 26:
- hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons1980, Calamus, page 8:
1 more example
- She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.1999, Leslie Thomas, Other Times, →ISBN, page 3:
- Derived terms
- all dressed, all-dressed, brain-dressed, cladly dressed, dressed herring, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed up, evening-dressed, full-dressed, get dressed, halfdressed, hammer-dressed, morning-dressed, mutton dressed as lamb, mutton dressed up as lamb, nondressed, overdressed, power-dressed, rough-dressed, underdressed, well-dressed