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dolled up

adj. dressed in fancy or formal clothing [syn: dressed(p), dressed-up, dressed to the nines(p), dressed to kill(p), spruced up, spiffed up, togged up]

Usage examples of "dolled up".

Not having seen Karen dolled up since 1979, I felt a pang of intense loneliness.

The first time this happened, it was a third-year student doing Arts, whose parents must have had a quid or two because she was always dolled up to the nines.

She continued to visit him, all dolled up, just the way he wanted her, and every day there was progress.

When they get dolled up at night you could goblind from the glare of the jewelry.

She got dolled up for some Santo Leon Lothario, it went bad, he killed her, dumped her somewhere out in the boonies.

Well, during the strike Clarence Drum comes pee-rading up to our table, all dolled up fit to kill in his nice lil cap'n's uniform, and somebody says to him, 'Busting the strike, Clarence?