Word Meanings - DRESSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• Dress coat
  A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
• Dress goods
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
• Dressiness
  The state of being dressy.
• Dressmaker
  A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
• Dressmaking
  The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
• DRESSCIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• DRESSGOODS
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

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