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Definition of Dressed-up
1. Adjective. Dressed in fancy or formal clothing.
Similar to: Clad, Clothed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dressed-up
Literary usage of Dressed-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1859)
"... dressed up in fine clothes ; you mout think I was proud, but I am not proud,
my broth- ring, and although I've been a preacher of the gospel for twenty ..."
2. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... just as if one had been dressed up to act Captain Dangerfield in the play,
she stood staring at him ; and he, knowing her, called her by her name. ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"The consequence was, that his edition of the story was so dressed up, as to render
it inconsistent ; first, with his well-known character ; secondly, ..."
4. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"'Ihe consequence was, that his edition of the story was so dressed up, as to
render it inconsistent ; first, with his well-known character; secondly, ..."
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