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morning-dressed

morning-dressed adjective: in morning dress.

Adjective

morning-dressed (not comparable)

  1. In morning dress.
    • If at considerable inconvenience, he puts on evening dress for some banquet or special function, he will find himself, at the last moment, bundled off in his war paint to report a hastily-convened labour deputation to a Cabinet Minister, the banquet having to be attended by a morning-dressed...1895 December 7, W. H., “Reporters and Reporting”, in The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, Supplement, number 6,855, page 1
    • […]its collection of exotics and normals, cranks and curious, well dressed and ill-dressed and morning-dressed.1922 September 30, James A. Roy, “Impressions Gained From A Trip Abroad”, in The Kingston Daily Standard, Kingston, Ont., section “Soho”, page 17

Examples of morning-dressed in a sentence

  • They gaze down at the matchlessly morning-dressed Lord Brentford, at Lord Birkenhead, grey-coated and inscrutable.1929 July 25, “How the Lords Staged the Egypt Drama: Labour Peers Under Fire. The Drama as it was Unfolded to a “Stranger.””, in Evening...
  • He was concluding one of the touchiest royal occasions in recent memory, an anonymous morning-dressed figure taking the black-gloved hand with a formal shake.1981 July 24, Nicholas Hills, “A discreet man’s head is safe”, in The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, B.C., page A4:

Origin of morning-dressed

From morning dress + -ed.

Questions about morning-dressed

What does morning-dressed mean?
Morning-dressed means in morning dress.
How do you use morning-dressed in a sentence?
They gaze down at the matchlessly morning-dressed Lord Brentford, at Lord Birkenhead, grey-coated and inscrutable.
What part of speech is morning-dressed?
Morning-dressed is an adjective.

Words near morning-dressed in the dictionary

  1. morning, noon and night
  2. morning-after
  3. morning-after pill
  4. morning-after pills
  5. morning-afters
  6. morning-dressed
  7. morning-gift
  8. morning-gifts
  9. morning-glories
  10. morning-glory
  11. morning-land

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