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Definition of Dressiest
1. dressy [adj] - See also: dressy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dressiest
Literary usage of Dressiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to Jamaica by Paris Permenter (2005)
"Saturday is the dressiest night at Round Hill; jacket and tie are required. ...
Round Hill is one of the island's dressiest establishments. ..."
2. Jamaica Alive! by Paris Permenter, John Bigley (2000)
"Round Hill is one of the island's dressiest restaurants. ... Saturday is the
dressiest night at Round Hill; jacket and tie are required. ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"Yet on the other hand Mr. B. has to confess that he himself is the dressiest
member of the house. He is wearing this morning a silk shirt and a well ..."
4. The Bahamas: A Taste of the Islands by Paris Permenter, John Bigley (2000)
"Expect high season (mid-December through mid-April) to be the dressiest period,
the only time when jackets and occasionally ties will be required at a few ..."
5. Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models by William Maddux Tanner (1918)
"One day we discovered that the dressiest mother-hen had married again. She had
grown uppish with her seven soprano children, to whom she had been, hitherto, ..."
6. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"Mrs. Solomon (we refer to the dressiest Mrs. Solomon, whichever one that was) in
all her glory was not arrayed like Miss Margaret on that eventful summer ..."
7. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1900)
"... are largely identified with the good taste and good clothes that characterize
Hartford as one of The dressiest cities in New England. ..."
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