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Definition of Outdressing
1. outdress [v] - See also: outdress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outdressing
Literary usage of Outdressing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1918)
"... but for better clothes either to arouse the envy of her fellow- workers by
outdressing them, or to mingle in society beyond one's means. ..."
2. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1904)
"... to excel in trapping game, or in outdressing and outranking others, or
in "bulling" or "bearing" the market); and they subdue ideas and feelings and ..."
3. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1894)
"... to excel in trapping game, or in outdressing and outranking others, or
in "bulling" or "bearing" the market); and they subdue ideas and feelings and ..."
4. Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea, Consort of George I: Chiefly from the Secret by Robert Folkestone Williams, Sophia Dorothea (1846)
"... -when they employed all their resources to attract notice towards themselves
by outdressing all the most distinguished ladies at court, ..."
5. Life in Washington: And Life Here and There by Mary Jane Windle (1859)
"... outdressing the lady of the "Supreme Court," or throwing into the shade the
less pretending government official's lady. Well-to-do merchants' clerks, ..."
6. The New Democracy: An Essay on Certain Political and Economic Tendencies in by Walter Edward Weyl (1912)
"The old joke about the maidservant outdressing her mistress has almost ceased to
be a joke and become a social phenomenon. Nowhere in the world is there so ..."
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