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/əndrˈɛs/ Listen

verb

Undress v. t.

To divest of clothes; to strip.

To divest of ornaments to disrobe.

(Med.) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.

noun

Undress n.

A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.

(Mil. & Naval) An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.

Undress parade (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.

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"Undress" Quotes from Famous Books

... his thoughts, whether the city girls would "turn up their noses" at him, and if they did, they might, for all that he cared, for there were plenty of rural beauties with whom he could console himself. But, like his father, he felt that the careless undress and freedom of their farm life would be criticised by the new-comers. He proposed, however, to make as little change as possible in his habits and dress, and to teach the Jocelyns that country people had "as good a right to their ways as city people to theirs." Therefore the threatened invasion ...

— Without a Home • E. P. Roe

... by her subsequent devotion to his interests and happiness. Their interview was a long and affecting one, and the Prince spent the remainder of the day in her society, returning, however, in the evening to the Louvre to be present at the coucher of the King, whom he assisted to undress; after which he waited upon the Queen, with whom he remained ...

— The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 2 (of 3) • Julia Pardoe

... fear—you shall be the ass; and thus Philip of Macedon begins to fill the pannier." And he tossed his purse into the hands of the valet, whose face seemed to lose its anxious embarrassment at the touch of the gold. Lilburne glanced at him with a quiet sneer: "Go!—I will give you my orders when I undress." ...

— Night and Morning, Volume 4 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... little girl's doll house, and her activities can be extended over the entire period during which she cares to play with dolls. At first she will be satisfied with handling her baby and putting her to sleep. Later she will want to dress and undress it. Before long she will have a whole family of dolls and will want to prepare their meals for them, sew and wash their clothes, and keep the house in order. These growing needs on her part are just as real as the needs adults feel, and it would ...

— Your Child: Today and Tomorrow • Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg

... to this dingy white buildin' with all the underwear hung up to dry around it. I took one glance inside, where the cots was stacked in thick and soldiers was loafin' around in various stages of dress and undress, and then I shooed mother and sister off a ways while I went scoutin' in alone. At a desk made out of a packin'-box I found a chap hammerin' away at a typewriter. He ...

— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford

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