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dressing-up

noun

Definitions

  1. The act or practice of putting on fancy clothes or a costume.

    • It is a very good idea to have a large box of discarded clothes and brightly coloured pieces of material handy during Christmas for the youngsters to use for "dressing-up."
    • The dressing-up in corsets, mesh-stockings and frilly aprons which has become a hallmark of Rocky Horror productions quite transformed the tasteful grey atmosphere of the Canberra Theatre[.]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA