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x-dressing

x-dressing is the abbreviation of cross-dressing.

Meaning of cross-dressing

Noun

cross-dressing (uncountable)

  1. The wearing of clothing which society considers appropriate for the opposite sex rather than the wearer's sex.
  2. Display by antigen-presenting cells of antigens obtained from the surface of infected cells.
    • Now, a study published in Nature shows that cross-dressing does indeed occur and is important for boosting memory CD8+ T cell responses in vivo.2011 April 21, Olive Leavy, “Cross-dress to impress”, in Nature Reviews Immunology, volume 11, number 302, →DOI

Origin of x-dressing

From x- + dressing.

Questions about x-dressing

What is x-dressing the abbreviation of?
X-dressing is the abbreviation of cross-dressing.

Words near x-dressing in the dictionary

  1. X-Day
  2. X-Days
  3. x-direction
  4. X-disease
  5. x-div.
  6. x-dressing
  7. x-factor
  8. x-factors
  9. X-Filesy
  10. X-gal
  11. x-hat

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