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windowdress

windowdress is the alternative form of window-dress.

Meaning of window-dress

Verb

window-dress (third-person singular simple present window-dresses, present participle window-dressing, simple past and past participle window-dressed)

  1. To decorate the window of a shop
  2. To give something superficial attractiveness

Forms of windowdress

third-person singular presentwindowdresses
present participlewindowdressing
past participlewindowdressed
pastwindowdressed

Questions about windowdress

What is windowdress the alternative form of?
Windowdress is the alternative form of window-dress.

Words near windowdress in the dictionary

  1. window-washer
  2. window-washers
  3. windowable
  4. windowbox
  5. windowboxes
  6. windowdress
  7. windowed
  8. windowed down
  9. windowed out
  10. windowed over
  11. windowed up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windowdress (page history and authors); window-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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