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Overdress   /ˈoʊvərdrˌɛs/   Listen
Overdress

verb
1.
Dress too warmly.  Synonym: overclothe.
2.
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive.  Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up.  "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"






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"Overdress" Quotes from Famous Books



... over a fire near by; Ailsa slipped off her gingham overdress, unbound the white turban, and tossed them on the grass near the fire. Then, rolling back her sleeves, she plunged her arms into a basin of hot water in which a little ...
— Ailsa Paige • Robert W. Chambers

... chemisette which covered their shoulders and allowed a glimpse, according to the pleasing custom of the time, of the swell of their fair virgin bosoms, from the opulence of their under-petticoats still more precious than their overdress (marvellous refinement), from the gauze, the silk, the velvet, with which all this was composed, and, above all, from the whiteness of their hands, which certified to their leisure and idleness, it was easy to divine they were noble and wealthy heiresses. ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo



Words linked to "Overdress" :   underdress, clothe, habilitate, plume, preen, garb, dress, raiment, bedizen, prank, garment, dress down, get dressed, primp, tart up, enclothe, fit out, tog, enrobe, costume, trick out, dizen, apparel



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