dressed

CEFRA1

/ˈdɹɛst/

adjective · verb

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01
adjective
Wearing clothes, especially clothes for a particular purpose.
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adjective
Extra detail
Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).

Extra meaning

In context

The nurse is dressed in white.
the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller
...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.

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...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
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 wagons
1980, Calamus, page 8
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

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