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Dress up   /drɛs əp/   Listen
Dress up

verb
1.
Put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive.  Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up.  "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
2.
Make something appear superficially attractive.  Synonym: window-dress.  "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"
3.
Put a caparison on.  Synonyms: bard, barde, caparison.
4.
Dress in a costume.  Synonym: costume.
5.
Dress in a certain manner.  Synonym: dress.  "He dressed up in a suit and tie"






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"Dress up" Quotes from Famous Books



... sat down on the step again, put her arms out widely and squeezed the silk dress up to her flat little body as though the garment ...
— The Campfire Girls of Roselawn - A Strange Message from the Air • Margaret Penrose

... "50-cent house" in the infamous "bedbug row district." It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, just before the beginning of regular business hours. In the reception room of the place, around a rusty old stove, sat eight or ten hopeless, lost girls; sick, smoking, cursing girls. Soon they would dress up, dope up with whiskey, cocaine or opium, dash some bella donna in their eyes and go on duty to meet all comers. Shivering by the stove sat a little foreign girl. I asked her name, the girls told me it was Josie and that she was an Italian. Speaking to her ...
— Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls • Jean Turner-Zimmermann

... was only this, and if any one has anything better to offer, I'm only too glad to hear about it. I thought that you girls could all dress up in your ceremonial costumes. In the meantime, I'll have a fire made in the living-room fireplace and then I'll go to ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield

... thing that has kept you under cover has bust wide open your way, and you win. And Pierre's going through for a clean-up. To-morrow you can swell around in a limousine again. And maybe you'll come around and take me for a drive, if I dress up, and promise to hide in a corner of the back seat so's they ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard

... "The two Bradleys must dress up, too," said Albert. "I think they ought to act as a guard of honor, don't you? The only things I have are blazers and jerseys; but it doesn't much matter what they wear, as long as ...
— Cinderella - And Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis


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