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Definition of Outdress
1. to surpass in dressing [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outdress
Literary usage of Outdress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1895)
"The life energy could then be withdrawn from vain striving to outdress- other
people's children and turned into useful channels. III. ..."
2. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"... on certain occasions, gathered together to dance about a large room with
violent gesticulation, and try to outdress each other. "In short,'' said he, ..."
3. A History of Social Thought by Emory Stephen Bogardus (1922)
"It means "rivalry in display, in ostentation, in the effort to outshine or to
outdress all one's neighbors, or at least not to be outshone or ..."
4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"... for he then does not outdress his voice or his face ; but in such parts as
Pedrosa, his fantastic habit beards his fantastic countenance, and the effect ..."
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