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Definition of Overdresses
1. overdress [v] - See also: overdress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdresses
Literary usage of Overdresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay (1912)
"Pale sea- foam-green bodices and overdresses over white. White crooks, with
pale-green satin ... Pale-blue bodices and looped-up overdresses over white. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Long bodices were tightly laced over very stiff corsets; overdresses were bunched
up in the neck and on the hips; and the hoop-skirt, as outrageous as the ..."
3. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, T. Arundel Harcourt, Albert Goldschmidt, Walter Mulrea Fisher, William Nemos (1874)
"Even the intestines of seals and whales are used in the manufacture of waterproof
overdresses.26 The costume for both sexes consists of long stockings or ..."
4. A Manual for the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"... the abdomen or hind wings, as if their fastidious taste allowed petticoats
only of brilliant colors always to be worn beneath quiet-toned overdresses. ..."
5. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore (1886)
"The eight bridesmaids wore dresses of white corded silk, alike in every particular,
with overdresses of white illusion, sashes of white silk arranged in a ..."
6. The Story of the White House by Esther Singleton (1907)
"Ladies were admitted alone, some losing their gallants, with no more prospect of
finding them again than there was of finding coats, hats or overdresses ..."
7. Travels in Arabia by Bayard Taylor, Thomas Stevens (1892)
"This reserve toilet numbered articles like the following: colored overdresses,
the Syrian combaz, handkerchiefs whose silk stripes relieved the plebeian ..."
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