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Definition of Overdressed
1. Adjective. Dressed too elaborately.
Definition of Overdressed
1. Adjective. (past of overdress) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overdressed
1. overdress [v] - See also: overdress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdressed
Literary usage of Overdressed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1910)
"... all idea of decoration and ornament finally rest, and that an overdressed
house, is, were that possible, in worse taste than an overdressed woman. ..."
2. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1857)
"Prom these' dissipated' characters Griffin works his way to the carriage containing
the belle of the station, ' a handsome, overdressed girl, ..."
3. Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates (1900)
"An overdressed Spanish woman is frightfully overdressed, her voice is maddening,
her gusts of mirth and anger are painfully uncontrolled. ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine (1875)
"Tho booth and the orchestra are but elegant cockney- isms; the flaring gaslights,
the overdressed women, many of them evidently lionnes of an advanced type, ..."
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