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simple past and past participle of dress quotations examples
...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883
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Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared. examples
Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing. examples
Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word). examples
(in combination) Wearing a dress. quotations examples
No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band.
1972, The Colorado Lawyer, page 26
hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons
1980, Calamus, page 8
She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.
1999, Leslie Thomas, Other Times, page 3