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Definition of Doll up
1. Verb. Use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.. "She dolled herself up for the night out with her friends"
Definition of Doll up
1. Verb. to dress oneself or another in formal or ostentatious clothing as if for a special occasion ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doll Up
Literary usage of Doll up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"I believe influenced more by its specialist criticism I believe that some
women 'doll up' and because, as an art, it must always be that many others have ..."
2. The Railroad Signal Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which ...by Braman Blanchard Adams, Railway signal association, Rodney Hitt by Braman Blanchard Adams, Railway signal association, Rodney Hitt (1908)
"... 34 Guy Rod Strut 22 doll up and Down Rods 35 Guy Rod 23 One Way Doll Crank
Stand with 36 Pipe Knee Clamp 37 Platform 24 Two Way Doll Crank Stand with 38 ..."
3. Girl Impersonations by Stanley Schell (1912)
"[Each mother in turn, as she introduces doll, takes egg-beater and winds doll
up, then doll walks to front of stage, bows and returns to place on mother's ..."
4. My Lorraine Journal by Edith O'Shaughnessy (1918)
"I leave it to the gentlest of readers to surmise what we did before being off,
and I would like to say here that one doesn't always "doll up" for others; ..."
5. My Lorraine Journal by Edith O'Shaughnessy (1918)
"I leave it to the gentlest of readers to surmise what we did before being off,
and I would like to say here that one doesn't always "doll up" for others; ..."
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