Antonyms for dresses
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : dres |
| Phonetic Transcription : drɛs |
Definition of dresses
Origin :- early 14c., "make straight; direct, guide, control, prepare for cooking," from Old French dresser, drecier "raise (oneself), address, prepare, lift, raise, hoist, set up, arrange, set (a table), serve (food), straighten, put right, direct," from Vulgar Latin *directiare, from Latin directus "direct, straight" (see direct (v.)).
- Sense of "decorate, adorn" is late 14c., as is that of "put on clothing." Original sense survives in military meaning "align columns of troops." Dress up "attire elaborately" is from 1670s; dressing down "wearing clothes less formal than expected" is from 1960. To dress (someone) down (1769) is ironical. Related: Dressed; dressing.
- noun clothing; woman's garment
- verb put on clothing
- verb physically prepare; groom
- verb cover a wound
- Did you ever hear what your Uncle Tom did when he was a little fellow in dresses?
- Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
- Do you know, S. Annie, these dresses of your'n will cost a sight?
- Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 3. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
- They look up some dresses, and properties, and have a piece written to fit 'em.
- Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens
- She got up from the bed and went to the door of the closet where she kept her dresses.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- The diplomatic body wore the dresses of their respective Courts.
- Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
- I cannot any longer endure the glare of these lamps and dresses!
- Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
- You don't think me nice enough, do you, now that you've made me pawn all my dresses?
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- The ladies examined their dresses carefully to see if they had been stained.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- It's a shame to allow women to rustle their dresses so near the holy relics.'
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
- Ladies in beautiful spring dresses were following the vergers up the aisles.
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
Synonyms for dresses
- accouterment
- adjust
- adorn
- align
- apparel
- arrange
- array
- attend
- attire
- attirement
- bandage
- bedeck
- bind
- bundle up
- cauterize
- change
- civvies
- clad
- cleanse
- clothe
- comb
- costume
- cover
- covering
- deck
- decorate
- dispose
- do up
- don
- drape
- dry goods
- duds
- embellish
- ensemble
- evening clothes
- fit
- fit out
- frock
- furbish
- garb
- gear
- give first aid
- gown
- guise
- habiliment
- habit
- heal
- make ready
- muumuu
- ornament
- outfit
- pinafore
- plaster
- primp
- put on
- raiment
- rig
- robe
- set
- sew up
- shift
- skirt
- slip into
- slip on
- smock
- spruce up
- sterilize
- straighten
- suit
- suit up
- Sunday best
- things
- threads
- tog
- toga
- toggery
- trappings
- treat
- trim
- turn out
- uniform
- vestment
- wardrobe
- wear
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