adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be dressed in … clothes
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The man was dressed in ordinary clothes.
casually dressed
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a casually dressed young man
dressed warmly
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Make sure that the children are dressed warmly.
fully dressed
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She collapsed fully dressed on the bed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
smartly
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Its smartly dressed citizens go about their business as if nothing was happening.
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When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite.
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Robed choirs are in decline in New Zealand, although smartly dressed secular choirs are to be seen on television.
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Then, in January 1946, a smartly dressed young Guards officer arrived at the camp with orders to see the Colonel.
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A prophecy was given which pictured a smartly dressed young man in a zip-up leather jacket.
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The foyer was crowded but it was true that there was not a smartly dressed woman in sight.
■ NOUN
stone
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Croydon Corporation were insisting on specially dressed stone setts.
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Its earliest parts were built of large cobbles and later additions in small stones , very early brickwork and dressed stone.
woman
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An elegantly dressed man and an elegantly dressed woman were sitting opposite each other.
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Outside the gates, too, he could see some respectably dressed women .
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The foyer was crowded but it was true that there was not a smartly dressed woman in sight.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mutton dressed as lamb
suitably dressed/prepared/equipped etc
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But one must be suitably dressed for a country visit and I had absolutely nothing fit to wear.
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They, too, regardless of the loss of their leader, were intent on being suitably dressed for Bank Holiday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And let me explain what I meant by that silly passage in my last letter, about expensively dressed girls.
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How, for example, should one handle the dressed fleas and their garments in terms of a computer record?
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I got dressed and they got slightly worse.
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She is all style, all form, all impeccably dressed dandy and wit, with never a tear out of place.
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She was paralysed, couldn't focus, knew that Gran couldn't hurry herself getting dressed and needed help.
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The humiliation of standing beside a woman who smelt, dressed and looked absolutely wonderful was doing little for her ego.
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The pavements are packed to overflowing with spectators and yet more immaculately dressed clown children.
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While waiting they are pleasantly confronted by what must be one of the prettiest and best dressed greengrocers in the country.