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the dress

the dress is the alternative letter-case form of The Dress.

Proper noun capitalized: The Dress

The Dress

  1. (Internet) A dress, a photograph of which became an online viral phenomenon in 2015 as debate raged over whether it was blue and black or white and gold.
    • “The Dress” is an excellent example of light source, reflectance, and shadow indeterminacy.2019, Daniel T. Willingham, Cedar Riener, Cognition: The Thinking Animal, page 74

Forms of the dress

alternative formthe dress

Questions about the dress

What does the dress mean?
The dress means a dress, a photograph of which became an online viral phenomenon in 2015 as debate raged over whether it was blue and black or white and gold.
What is the dress the alternative letter-case form of?
The dress is the alternative letter-case form of The Dress.
What part of speech is the dress?
The dress is a proper noun.

Words near the dress in the dictionary

  1. the dollar bean
  2. The Donald
  3. the dose makes the poison
  4. The Dot
  5. the double O
  6. the dress
  7. the drinks are on me
  8. the Ds
  9. the dumps
  10. the early bird catches the worm
  11. the early bird gets the worm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: the dress (page history and authors); The Dress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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