dresseth

Verb

dress (third-person singular simple present dresses, present participle dressing, simple past dressed, past participle dressed or (obsolete) drest)

1. (also, figuratively, reflexive, transitive) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
   • He was dressed in the latest fashions.

   Synonyms:

   attire, don, accouter, address, apparel, array, beclothe, clothe, dight, garment

   Antonyms:

   strip, undress, denude, despoil, dismantle, disrobe, divest, doff, peel, put off

   1. (also, figuratively, reflexive, specifically, transitive) To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
      • [A]ll the men there shoulde dresse themselves like the poorest sorte of the people in Arcadia, having no banners, but bloudie shirtes hanged upon long staves, […]c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New...
2. (transitive) To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone).
   • The fashion designer was proud to have dressed the queen for the charity event.
3. (transitive) To arrange or style (someone's hair).
   • [Domitian] after his manner, with a cheerfull countenance and grieved heart, received the newes: being inwardly pricked, to think that his later counterfet triumph of Germany, wherin certain ſlaves bought for mony were attired and their haire dreſſed as captives of that country, was had in deriſion...1610, William Camden, “Romans in Britaine”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […]...
4. (also, figuratively, transitive) To adorn or ornament (something).
   • It was time to dress the windows for Christmas again.
   1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To arrange a display of goods in, or to decorate (a shop or shop window).

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