I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cotton shirt/dress/jacket etc
▪ Egyptian cotton sheets are very expensive here.
a dress code (=rules about what you must wear)
▪ Some of the more expensive clubs have a dress code.
a dress designer (=for clothes for women)
▪ Christian Lacroix was one of Paris's most flamboyant dress designers.
a fancy dress partyBritish English, a costume party American English (= one where people wear unusual clothes, for example so they look like someone from a story)
▪ She went to the fancy dress party as Snow White.
a party dress
▪ The little girls were wearing white party dresses.
be dressed in … clothes
▪ The man was dressed in ordinary clothes.
casually dressed
▪ a casually dressed young man
cocktail dress
dress a wound (=clean it and cover it with cloth)
▪ The nurse dressed my wound.
dress circle
dress rehearsal
dress sense
dress shirt
dress uniform
dress/clothes sense (=an ability to choose clothes well)
▪ Her dress sense was faultless.
dressed warmly
▪ Make sure that the children are dressed warmly.
dressing gown
dressing room
dressing table
evening dress
evening wear/dress (=formal clothes that people wear to social events in the evening)
▪ a shop specializing in glamorous evening wear
fancy dress
▪ an invitation to a fancy-dress party
French dressing
full dress
▪ officers in full dress uniform
fully dressed
▪ She collapsed fully dressed on the bed.
morning dress
national dress
power dressing
salad dressing
wedding dress
window dressing
▪ All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing – the fact is that the new mall will ruin the neighborhood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
▪ It was a beautiful dress, white seersucker dotted with small mauve flowers.
▪ She had the most beautiful dresses.
▪ The trouble was, she was fat, so the beautiful dress and the beautiful coat didn't really matter very much.
▪ Jane saw Gabby quietly standing in a corner in a beautiful gray wool dress Francois Brac had designed for her.
▪ Almost as beautiful as the dress you are wearing.
▪ They had bought a paper pattern, and followed the instructions carefully; it would be the most beautiful dress ever seen.
▪ Anne looked beautiful in a dress of white organdie with a wreath of orange blossom on her dark hair.
▪ The slaves grew it and the children spun it and people like Miss Harker were wearing beautiful dresses.
black
▪ I settled on one of my favourites-a simple black dress.
▪ She is wearing a black dress and pearls, and a stole is strewn on the front seat.
▪ Biddy, in her neat little black dress, was busy serving food.
▪ It was easier to keep up a black dress than a white one.
▪ She was a blonde in a black dress, wearing a tiny hat with a visor of veil.
▪ She was singing on a stage in back of the bar and was wearing a black dress.
▪ The women wore severe black dresses or full-length black kimono.
blue
▪ On one occasion they unearthed a blue taffeta ball dress with small bouquets of pink and cream brocade roses.
▪ Tipper Gore will wear a Jennifer George blue wool dress and jacket set topped by a sapphire alpaca coat for day.
▪ Mum wore a pretty blue dress and Dad was wearing his best suit.
▪ I had heard him telling an old woman at the house that her blue dress suited her wonderfully.
▪ She was wearing the blue and green dress and it suited her every bit as well Claudia had thought it would.
▪ Dark-haired and dark-skinned, a pale blue dress and ivory sweater.
▪ They closed protectively round Flora in their red, green and blue dresses.
▪ She had tinted blond hair, large glasses, a blue dress cinched at the waist by a wide glossy belt.
casual
▪ He scrapped segregated dining rooms and often walked around barefoot and in casual dress, eating bananas.
▪ Some have actually instituted casual dress on snowy days so that workers can dress comfortably and warmly when the weather turns sour.
▪ On reflection she believed it was something to do with the way she looked - her casual dress.
▪ Californians are casual in dress, even at the opera or in the finest restaurants.
▪ It turns out that casual dress had not erased that distinction.
dark
▪ The woman wore a dark heavy dress with three-quarter-length sleeves.
▪ She wore a dark green strapless dress with an enormous skirt.
▪ She chose a dark green fitted dress - not quite in mourning, but a sombre colour to match her mood.
▪ Her dark dress has a creamy collar and cuffs, daubed with salmon trim.
▪ She took a step into the room and noticed a dark red dress on the sofa.
▪ She sighed as she inspected her one good dark blue wool dress, its seat shiny with wear.
▪ She was wearing the dark green woollen dress that showed off her still remarkable contours.
▪ She wears a dark print dress with a black lace collar; her large hands rest on her lap.
full
▪ Archer was in full evening dress.
▪ The closet was full of dresses.
▪ The 2000-strong audience wore full evening dress.
▪ There is a partial recreation of a dramatic battle scene, with life-size models in armour and full battle dress.
▪ At ten o'clock Morton put on full evening dress, and took a cab to the Beresfords' mansion.
▪ Perhaps this was his idea of full dress for a ceremonial occasion.
▪ Against the walls sat row behind row of chiefs, in all the glory of full dress.
▪ Busacher arrived first, looking grand and archaic in full evening dress, white tie and tails.
green
▪ And what she saw was a handsome dark-haired young man who sat laughing with a girl in a bright green dress.
▪ She was wearing the blue and green dress and it suited her every bit as well Claudia had thought it would.
▪ She was wearing a green print dress and a canvas hat with a sun visor.
▪ He liked it then she wore her green dress, with the belt that had a brass buckle.
▪ She wore a dark green strapless dress with an enormous skirt.
▪ They closed protectively round Flora in their red, green and blue dresses.
▪ I saw her sitting there, in her green tartan dress.
little
▪ Biddy, in her neat little black dress, was busy serving food.
▪ Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied.
▪ And no, a little black cocktail dress will not do.
▪ First, the little black dress: it's the only permissible way with black this winter.
▪ The child was awash in the boiling water; her drenched little dress clung to her.
▪ Just add a little black dress to show the necklace off to maximum effect.
▪ The little black designer dress had been an impulse buy earlier in the year, and she'd never worn it.
long
▪ This dress reminds me of my first long dress.
▪ Jill Franklin wore a long white cotton dress with small roses in its pattern.
▪ Lady Thomson, Midge and Chris were wearing long dresses.
▪ Then I saw her, standing in the orchard in her long white dress.
▪ Obediently, Martha studied the image of a glassy-eyed young white woman in a long white dress and tiara.
▪ In this light of evolutionary time, ecology can be seen as one long dress rehearsal.
▪ Money was made by long runs of dresses successfully sold.
▪ At every bus stop there were colourful clutches of women in long dresses with well-scrubbed children, bound for church.
modern
▪ Of course, the statue was in modern dress.
▪ Has to be modern dress obviously, and ideally an elderly character.
new
▪ Every evening I watched Eliza and Georgiana putting on their new dresses and going out to parties.
▪ Mom grew up during the Depression, always doing without a new dress.
▪ I've got to go now as it's time for me to get my new dresses fitted.
▪ You know when a woman has a life change and puts on a new dress?
▪ I wished for a new dress as I washed and ironed my old yellow home-made mini for the hundredth time.
▪ She fell into another and tore her new red dress.
▪ Maybe I could have a new dress.
▪ She'd treated herself to the new dress, from the boutique recommended by Anneliese.
pink
▪ When found, she was wearing a pink floral dress, lilac tights, a white cardigan and black patent leather shoes.
▪ Something about the slave girl fascinated Heather as she took in the pink silk dress hugging the curves of her body.
▪ I wore a sweet pink dress with dark pink roses patterning it.
▪ Would Papa consent, in a few years' time, to his marrying the quiet young woman in the pink dress?
▪ The baby, obviously a girl in a pale pink broderie anglaise dress, was beautiful.
▪ She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband.
▪ Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied.
▪ Benny was large and square, but she wouldn't look like that in the pink velvet dress.
pretty
▪ That's a very pretty dress you're wearing.
▪ She told him to bring her a pretty dress and her best handkerchief.
▪ She took particular care with her preparations and chose a light, pretty dress and sensational earrings.
▪ Mum wore a pretty blue dress and Dad was wearing his best suit.
▪ She thought this was the prettiest dancing dress she had ever seen.
▪ Drowsily, achingly she allowed him to explore her flesh where it was revealed above the neckline of her pretty dress.
▪ But I've walked past so many pretty dresses and little socks with lacy tops, I'd almost given up.
▪ Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied.
red
▪ She was wearing a tight red dress which showed off her shapely legs.
▪ She slips on a bright red party dress and she becomes a fun teenager.
▪ McDougal arrives in a faded red dress and good spirits.
▪ Her red dress had not been made to walk in and had seen better days.
▪ Finally, pleased with the results, I put on my petticoats, my camisole, and then my red plaid dress.
▪ A woman was moving on stage, a woman wearing a red dress.
▪ She wore sunglasses, and that thin red gingham dress he liked on her.
short
▪ She was wearing a short lilac dress and a pale cashmere jacket, beneath which the jet pendant glimmered in inky symbolism.
▪ Women were wearing short dresses ending at their knees and hats that looked like overturned pots.
▪ They keep their legs slightly apart so as not ro bruise the boils under their too short dresses and thin cotton underpants.
▪ The arms say the light of day in a short sleeved dress and they are like the arms of a prize fighter.
▪ Alter baptism, she cuts her hair short and dresses like a man.
▪ Anna wore a short cream dress, from which her long legs emerged, seemingly, for ever.
▪ She wore a short black dress and glass earrings.
white
▪ In the garden in her white dress, she knew she had done the wrong thing.
▪ I would have helped you bathe and dress, I would have made you a white dress, silk or linen.
▪ The white dress lay on the bed.
▪ The white dresses, the long white gloves, the limos, the whole nine yards.
▪ Nice? she wanted to scream, wanted to grab those scrawny arms in that cheap white dress and demand, Nice?
▪ Obediently, Martha studied the image of a glassy-eyed young white woman in a long white dress and tiara.
▪ The heat made her white dress stick to her.
yellow
▪ She was wearing her favourite yellow linen dress and pretty cream high-heeled shoes with Jim's pearls gleaming against her elegant neck.
▪ The photo filled the cover, the photo of Cory Aquino in her yellow dress, Woman of the Year.
▪ Her yellow dress, her hands searching her black hair.
▪ He saw the figure in the yellow dress become smaller and smaller.
▪ Nan wore the smart navy coat she had worn yesterday, but this time over a pale yellow wool dress.
▪ Liza took a yellow cotton button-through dress out of her wardrobe.
▪ She could not get the image of a yellow piqué dress crumpled on a white bed out of her mind.
■ NOUN
cocktail
▪ Northern Whites Cream chenille sweaters, warm oatmeal jackets and ivory cocktail dresses guide the way into winter.
▪ And no, a little black cocktail dress will not do.
▪ Ruth shifted uncomfortably in her azure crêpe de Chine cocktail dress.
▪ Smart casual wear is quite in order for dinner time, but bring one cocktail dress for the Captain's cocktail party.
▪ I have seen her before, in a cocktail dress at some one's party, or at an exhibition perhaps.
code
▪ It's a cool drinking venue, with a noir dress code observed by the arty crowd and staff.
▪ Usually, there is something behind a dress code, some reasoning.
▪ Instead of simplifying life, relaxed business dress codes have become an expensive and troublesome burden.
▪ I have discovered a dress code among Labour party members.
▪ I knew the language, the dress codes, what the leisure weekend activites were.
▪ The dress code in the East Links clubhouse required only that entrants not wear spikes.
▪ Most public schools already have dress codes.
cotton
▪ Ruth wore the pale lavender cotton dress which Mrs Carson had given her.
▪ I settle on a simple cotton dress, black, and a pair of dangling earrings.
▪ Jill Franklin wore a long white cotton dress with small roses in its pattern.
▪ She was wearing a pale green cotton dress.
▪ Maria was wearing a simple cotton dress and sandals.
▪ With this criterion in mind she'd picked a neat black cotton dress, short-sleeved and V-necked.
▪ The other girls are carrying purses and wearing seersucker and madras cotton blouses or printed cotton dresses and penny loafers.
designer
▪ Ossie Clark, Sixties dress designer, 51.
▪ She wants to be a dress designer.
▪ I also had a meeting with the dress designer for the Palladium show.
▪ Beginning at 11am, the discussion will be opened by well-known dress designer Joanne Ferguson.
evening
▪ Archer was in full evening dress.
▪ A man and woman in evening dress alighted from it.
▪ The 2000-strong audience wore full evening dress.
▪ Princess Margaret wore a pretty blue silk evening dress, and sat in the front row of the circle.
▪ The first three rows of the stalls were filled with people in evening dress.
▪ It is absolutely vital to the sales of a popular car, a hi-fi radio, a camera or an evening dress.
▪ The Oistrakhs bow and scrape in evening dress, on Emi-tape.
▪ Busacher arrived first, looking grand and archaic in full evening dress, white tie and tails.
party
▪ She slips on a bright red party dress and she becomes a fun teenager.
▪ The sunlight glimmered off these blades and when the sea breeze swept through they rippled like sequins on a party dress.
▪ She does a little pose, having worn a real party dress.
▪ At the hospital George Cummings swung aside the ambulance door and pulled out a girl still in her white party dress.
▪ Maire Carroll arrived wearing a proper party dress.
▪ I can remember a party dress that I loved - a white one with bright, tiny flowers on and lace trimming.
shirt
▪ Zach put it on and when the jacket was done up it looked as if he was wearing a proper dress shirt.
▪ He wears a suit and a dress shirt without a tie, along with a straw hat that is out of style.
▪ For one thing, I forgot to turn off the iron and nearly burnt the Professor's dress shirt I was ironing.
▪ He held up his arms to show the unfastened cuffs of his dress shirt sticking out from the sleeves of his jacket.
▪ He wore a short-sleeved dress shirt with the collar open and his necktie at half-mast.
▪ He threw my dress shirt over it so all was pale blue.
▪ Every day Mones came to class in a short-sleeved dress shirt and shiny black tie-up shoes.
shop
▪ Rituals and Cults Sessions at the make-up table, in dress shops, hairdressers and beauty parlours.
▪ She was also determined to spend as much time in dress shops as she possibly could!
▪ Part of the ground floor had become a dress shop.
▪ She worked as an assistant in a dress shop and it was important that she looked smart.
silk
▪ Lyddy interrupted her reverie with the cream silk dress laid across her arms like an offering.
▪ Something about the slave girl fascinated Heather as she took in the pink silk dress hugging the curves of her body.
▪ Lucy wore a petrol blue watered silk dress with matching velvet jacket and had hyacinth pips in her hair.
▪ She was swathed in a red silk dress that fitted where it touched.
▪ She walked into his rooms without knocking, wearing an emerald-green silk dress, no hat, and the Conway pearls.
summer
▪ She was ready for Stephen promptly at eleven, wearing a summer dress of wild silk in a rich pink-peach colour.
▪ The countryside had put on its summer dress, so many shades of green and everything fresh and clean.
▪ Instead, I kissed her tenderly on the arm, just below the sleeve of her summer dress.
▪ Men in shirtsleeves and women in summer dresses were strolling around the airport and ice-cream vendors were doing a brisk trade.
▪ Her stomach rumbled with hunger and she was chilled in her light summer dress.
▪ She felt the full skirt of her Summer dress being swept up to bare her silken thighs and round firm bottom.
▪ Her pretty summer dress was soiled where she had knelt on the pavement.
▪ One wore a tattered summer dress in pink spotted cotton with double flounces, the other a pinafore over a checked blouse.
uniform
▪ In spite of the heat, parties in full dress uniform were sent to scour the countryside.
▪ My father attended in his dress uniform.
wedding
▪ Brides-to-be can also catch a glimpse of a specially commissioned wedding dress.
▪ That night I was again subjected to the ordeal by wedding dress.
▪ Inside, buried in acid-free tissue paper, was her wedding dress.
▪ So will the new wedding dress.
▪ He also designed Princess Margaret's wedding dress in 1960.
▪ I've got this smart suit on and Marie's wearing this white wedding dress with all these frilly bits.
■ VERB
buy
▪ Why not buy a dress with this year's fashion colour!
▪ Everybody seemed to have bought a new dress for the occasion, and she had hardly finished paying for her suit.
▪ And for each of the 15 girls buying dresses, there is an escort in need of a tuxedo.
▪ They reassured her that she looked beautiful, and she knew they had bought the dress for her.
put
▪ Every evening I watched Eliza and Georgiana putting on their new dresses and going out to parties.
▪ When Sonya brought in the food, I noticed she had put on a new dress.
▪ You put her dress and the necklace in the boiler room.
▪ But he begged sick and I put on my dress and we walked into the corn holding hands.
▪ All the same, most of them were splendid and she was glad she had put on a dress today.
▪ You know when a woman has a life change and puts on a new dress?
▪ Not only words, but ideas had to be put into other dress.
▪ She was sorry she had to put on the dress she had been wearing yesterday.
wear
▪ Zach put it on and when the jacket was done up it looked as if he was wearing a proper dress shirt.
▪ I was wearing my black dress and moved among the trees like a living shadow.
▪ She does a little pose, having worn a real party dress.
▪ She was singing on a stage in back of the bar and was wearing a black dress.
▪ Some of them wore dresses with bulky trainers showing at the bottom.
▪ She is wearing a black dress and pearls, and a stole is strewn on the front seat.
▪ She seemed to be wearing Anna's evening dress, long and black and trailing on the floor, winking with spangles.
▪ She was wearing a green print dress and a canvas hat with a sun visor.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
best dress/shoes/clothes etc
▪ Everyone was in black because their best clothes were for funerals, and everyone danced.
▪ I washed them, then dressed them in their best clothes, but never new ones.
▪ She had her best shoes on, and a new hat.
▪ She had the best dress sense of any girl in Benedict's and a passion for altering the colour of her hair.
▪ The best car, the wittiest put-down, and the best dress.
▪ The first best clothes were only for Sunday and when visitors came.
▪ The princess arrayed herself in her best clothes and jewels.
▪ They would never let you in alone, even though you are wearing your best clothes.
dressed (up) to the nines
▪ Now, remember the elegant woman, always dressed to the nines, with the infectious laugh.
dressed to kill
▪ In her black velvet cocktail dress, Elaine Russell was dressed to kill.
▪ Erica, who had been dressed to kill when he got to the flat, had agreed.
▪ He is dressed to kill with no place to go.
full-length skirt/dress/coat etc
get dressed
▪ I got dressed quickly and ran outside.
▪ Rob got dressed in a hurry.
▪ Sandra's in the bedroom getting dressed.
▪ After washing, we wandered around outside the tents drying in the sun and getting dressed.
▪ I just wanted to get dressed in peace.
▪ It took me fifteen minutes to get dressed.
▪ Liz dragged her out of bed and stood over her while she got dressed.
▪ Ruta, get dressed, get dressed quick.
▪ The nappy changes, the meal times, the endless trips round supermarkets, school times, getting dressed and so on?
it bag/dress/shoes etc
midi skirt/dress/coat
strapless dress/gown/bra
▪ She wore a dark green strapless dress with an enormous skirt.
▪ Susanna wore a black silk strapless dress.
suitably dressed/prepared/equipped etc
▪ But one must be suitably dressed for a country visit and I had absolutely nothing fit to wear.
▪ They, too, regardless of the loss of their leader, were intent on being suitably dressed for Bank Holiday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do you like my new dress?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And for each of the 15 girls buying dresses, there is an escort in need of a tuxedo.
▪ Anita's dress, £180, Karen Boyd.
▪ Arrested for attending Quaker and Seeker meetings, he was excused by a judge who noted his fine dress.
▪ Her dress was sticking uncomfortably to her back and her palms were wet.
▪ Minna, as if she were proving some point, wore an old dress and had not bothered-to comb her hair properly.
▪ The first time I meet her, I wear an unflattering dress.
▪ Your spokesman will also need some advice on dress for television.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
all
▪ They were all dressed in black.
▪ He is dressed all in black, except for a white shirt.
▪ It was just too galling, seeing him all dressed up for some one else.
▪ Larger than he used to be, if not larger than life, he is dressed all in black.
▪ There are 11 people in the band, all dressed to project their own characters.
▪ Ralph asked their father as he did every time the family came out all dressed up.
▪ Another dead kid, and all dressed up in Mosse's old clothes.
▪ I have recoiled from a picture of myself in our family photograph album, all dressed up in this costume.
casually
▪ On one famous occasion Diana, barefoot and casually dressed in jeans, buttered toast for an astonished footman.
▪ She and her polite staff dress casually.
▪ I was more casually dressed in corduroys and a black leather jacket.
▪ Among them: Free everyone to dress casually because there are no credible studies linking job performance with attire.
▪ He was casually dressed and had a rumpled look.
▪ BankAmerica employees like dressing casually so much they are willing to pay for the privilege.
▪ He dressed casually in a red golfing sweater, pale blue trousers, and deceptively ordinary-looking hand-made shoes.
▪ Marsha sits at her office desk, casually dressed, as usual.
fully
▪ He was lying face downwards in the shadow of the short diving-board, fully dressed in a blazer and white linen trousers.
▪ He was still fully dressed, except for the jacket and he, literally, hugged his side of the bed.
▪ She took one step forward and toppled Mitch fully dressed in to the swimming-pool without a moment's hesitation.
▪ She was fully dressed, wearing a hat and coat.
▪ When the bell is deployed, the divers descend fully dressed.
▪ After a while I went back to my room and lay down, fully dressed, waiting.
▪ As I suspected, Richard was fully dressed.
smartly
▪ Elegantly restored ballroom that plays house, garage and disco to a smartly dressed, trendy crowd-no jeans or trainers.
▪ Each has a young, smartly dressed teacher in front of a blackboard.
▪ He was smartly dressed in a white shirt and dark trousers.
▪ The same guidelines apply as at more conventional interviews, including presenting yourself confidently and being smartly dressed.
▪ He was particularly smartly dressed in black trousers and waistcoat, white shirt and red bow-tie.
▪ Contrary to the popular stereotype, they take care to dress smartly, according to current youth fashions.
▪ In spite of the heat he was very smartly dressed in a dark three-piece suit.
▪ He was smartly dressed in a two piece suit.
up
▪ We thought anyone who dresses up in dresses we want to go and see.
▪ You really ought to dress up more, Cal.
▪ We don't dress up and go out dancing.
▪ I love to get dressed up.
▪ You don't have to get dressed up, I just like to.
▪ It was just too galling, seeing him all dressed up for some one else.
▪ Mum had dressed up, and was looking all sweet in a blue dress with a bow at the front.
▪ Dinah Asshe could not remember a time when she had not enjoyed dressing up.
well
▪ He passed the Post Office, where a young black man, tall and well dressed, stood talking quietly to himself.
▪ Sitting on the next bench were two young women, dazzling creatures, well dressed and well fed.
▪ This is partly because - as he realizes with a shock - he is remarkably well dressed.
▪ The mole: Handsome and well dressed as moles go; he wanted to marry Thumbelina.
▪ He could afford to dress well for the pay was good.
▪ Nora tried her best to get round the wartime restrictions so that Constance could be well dressed.
▪ Beyond that, it promises to provide a weekly primer on dopey and unctuous behavior among upscale hillbillies who dress well.
■ NOUN
body
▪ They also may apply cosmetics to provide a natural appearance, and then dress the body and place it in a casket.
▪ I myself questioned the royal physician who dressed the body for burial at Jedburgh Abbey, Duncan MacAirth.
▪ There was a line there of shabbily dressed shuffling bodies.
▪ What I felt I was doing, as I dressed my shivering body in layer upon layer, was protecting myself.
▪ Her wound was dressed, her body and clothes were clean, and her hair was neat.
clothes
▪ There were people dressed in gay bright clothes walking on the promenade.
▪ Teen-age girls cut their hair and dressed in baggy clothes to be less attractive to the mysterious killer.
▪ To blackmail a man because he likes dressing in women's clothes.
▪ Normal stores have security people dressed in such plain clothes you wonder how they can afford to do any shopping.
▪ When they wake they dress in the loosest clothes, skip breakfast and head for the tennis courts.
▪ Daniel removes Mordecai to rooms in Chelsea, dresses him in new clothes, and brings Mirah to her brother.
▪ They were both pale-faced, hot and dishevelled, and dressed in loose-fitting crumpled clothes.
▪ He is dressed in differ-ent clothes.
costume
▪ Everyone was dressed in Music Hall costume.
▪ Some have made pilgrimages to re-enact ancient rituals in caves, others have dressed in costumes and objects evoking traditional Goddess images.
▪ The dinner will be held in a marquee in Friary Gardens, Richmond, with guests dressed in Victorian costume.
▪ Consequently, Julius Caesar was dressed in Elizabethan costume because no one thought that he ought to be dressed any differently.
▪ I have recoiled from a picture of myself in our family photograph album, all dressed up in this costume.
▪ Staff dressed in period costume, and a photographic display recording the Branch's history was unveiled in the banking hall.
▪ Charles made himself up for the new role, and dressed in the new costume.
dinner
▪ He was dressed for dinner and she knew without doubt that they were not going to be invited to join him.
▪ Corinne and Joe dressed formally for dinner each evening, met in the small study for cocktails, and dined by themselves.
▪ He would stride on to the concert platform, a tall, self-assured man impeccably dressed in a dinner jacket.
▪ Pauline Davis taught the young man how to dress for a formal dinner and how to observe the required etiquette.
▪ Jim and William Reid don't dress for dinner.
▪ While we were dressing for dinner, Jasper spent a long time trying to teach me how to tie it.
▪ One day, it was a Saturday between matinee and evening, I got dressed to go for dinner.
▪ Tea was served at four-thirty, and after tea everybody would rush upstairs to dress for dinner.
evening
▪ The band, dressed in evening wear and sitting on a raised dais, were at the far end of the hall.
▪ You are dressed in formal evening clothes, and it is obvious you are competing in a ballroom dance contest.
hair
▪ In youth she would have dressed her hair to cover them.
▪ In the dark she put on a fresh silk dress and brushed her hair.
▪ She dried herself, dressed, brushed her hair and re-applied her make-up, then inspected her reflection in the mirror.
jeans
▪ On one famous occasion Diana, barefoot and casually dressed in jeans, buttered toast for an astonished footman.
▪ Alvin dressed in blue jeans, shirts and boots and looked like the renegade that he felt he was.
▪ Like her, he was dressed in jeans, and a denim shirt.
▪ She turned off the water and stepped out on to the rug, dried herself, and dressed in jeans and a shirt.
▪ Jimmy, dressed in jeans and a black leather jacket, had arrived on his motorbike.
▪ Then she dressed quickly in jeans and a long-sleeved shirt and pulled on her thick Aran cardigan.
▪ Young and slim, dressed in blue jeans and denim jacket, the man worked the Dancing Fly.
salad
▪ Use nonfat or low-fat salad dressing as a dip.
▪ Diet drinks and water are also unlimited ò Unlimited salad with fat-free dressing may be served with lunch and dinner.
▪ A lot of it, and some salad dressing.
▪ Add the salad dressing and any juice from the orange and mix well.
▪ Need a spicy low-fat salad dressing?
▪ She was in the middle of making a salad dressing when some one rang her doorbell.
▪ They suggest serving it for a light supper with couscous and a mesclun salad dressed with raspberry vinaigrette.&038;.
shirt
▪ He was smartly dressed in a white shirt and dark trousers.
▪ Gilfoyle sat in the dock dressed in a white shirt, dark blue tie, and grey cardigan.
▪ They washed at a pump behind the church, and each child was dressed in a clean shirt.
▪ He was dressed in a flannel shirt that was covered in sawdust.
▪ Jen came out of the bathroom, dressed in a shirt this time, and crawled into bed alongside me.
▪ He was fully dressed, his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all.
suit
▪ He was dressed in a suit that looked as if it needed pressing.
▪ Some are dressed in business suits.
▪ The youths, aged about 15, dressed in brightly shell suits were riding mountain bikes.
▪ By now the cross-country vehicle had disgorged its complement of heavyweight occupants, also dressed in identical blue suits.
▪ As told to Cathy Troupp Peter was 33, six feet tall, and dressed in a well-worn suit and tie.
▪ He is dressed in an immaculate suit, but he is wearing bedroom slippers.
▪ There was a lovely picture of him on telly last night peering woefully over the fence dressed in snazzy suit.
▪ Although they were dressed formally in dark suits, both men were wearing heavy rubber boots in deference to winter.
uniform
▪ She dressed in an unvarying uniform of black ski pants and pink mohair pullover which became grubbier as the weeks passed.
▪ Row upon row they seemed to march, reminding Lucy of soldiers dressed in Prussian green uniforms.
▪ He was dressed in that uniform with its fancy red flashes when he came to Claudia's aid.
▪ The huts would look like they used to and inside there'd even be staff dressed in period uniform.
▪ Harvey was dressed in a khaki uniform with colonel's insignia on the collar.
▪ I woke before six and dressed in casual uniform and went to my office to get things ready for the day.
▪ There were others seated away from the table whose function was not clear to Holman, but three were dressed in military uniforms.
▪ She may be dressed in a different uniform, and therefore must explain her role to the patient.
window
▪ I will never forget, the shop windows were dressed beautifully with mauve velvet.
▪ The Raiders passing game was mere window dressing.
▪ It is, by itself, little more than window dressing on the part of the Government.
▪ Viewed in this light, the conference was mere window-dressing.
▪ Twelve Zekes were used as window dressing for the Akagi scenes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
best dress/shoes/clothes etc
▪ Everyone was in black because their best clothes were for funerals, and everyone danced.
▪ I washed them, then dressed them in their best clothes, but never new ones.
▪ She had her best shoes on, and a new hat.
▪ She had the best dress sense of any girl in Benedict's and a passion for altering the colour of her hair.
▪ The best car, the wittiest put-down, and the best dress.
▪ The first best clothes were only for Sunday and when visitors came.
▪ The princess arrayed herself in her best clothes and jewels.
▪ They would never let you in alone, even though you are wearing your best clothes.
dress the part
▪ He would dress the part, even though he wore a cloak or hood.
▪ I had to admit he dressed the part.
▪ They dress the part and are convinced there's a market for them.
dressed (up) to the nines
▪ Now, remember the elegant woman, always dressed to the nines, with the infectious laugh.
dressed to kill
▪ In her black velvet cocktail dress, Elaine Russell was dressed to kill.
▪ Erica, who had been dressed to kill when he got to the flat, had agreed.
▪ He is dressed to kill with no place to go.
full-length skirt/dress/coat etc
get dressed
▪ I got dressed quickly and ran outside.
▪ Rob got dressed in a hurry.
▪ Sandra's in the bedroom getting dressed.
▪ After washing, we wandered around outside the tents drying in the sun and getting dressed.
▪ I just wanted to get dressed in peace.
▪ It took me fifteen minutes to get dressed.
▪ Liz dragged her out of bed and stood over her while she got dressed.
▪ Ruta, get dressed, get dressed quick.
▪ The nappy changes, the meal times, the endless trips round supermarkets, school times, getting dressed and so on?
it bag/dress/shoes etc
midi skirt/dress/coat
mutton dressed as lamb
strapless dress/gown/bra
▪ She wore a dark green strapless dress with an enormous skirt.
▪ Susanna wore a black silk strapless dress.
suitably dressed/prepared/equipped etc
▪ But one must be suitably dressed for a country visit and I had absolutely nothing fit to wear.
▪ They, too, regardless of the loss of their leader, were intent on being suitably dressed for Bank Holiday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dress the salad with lemon, olive oil, and a little black pepper.
▪ Dress warmly - it's cold out.
▪ Ask Mom if she needs help dressing the turkey.
▪ Can you dress the kids while I make breakfast?
▪ Clean the area thoroughly before dressing the wound.
▪ How do most of the people dress at your office?
▪ It's a costume party, so she's dressing as a clown.
▪ Patty's just learning to dress herself.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Check that those who can dress themselves are coping.
▪ He dresses and acts more like a 36-year-old electrical engineer.
▪ I didn't dress it up; no wonder she took it as life letting her down once more.