Definition of Dressing

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Dressing

of Dress

Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.

An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.

Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.

The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.

Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.

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Dressing Quotations

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Katharine Hepburn

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.
Marc Jacobs

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
Jose Marti

Dressing is a way of life.
Yves Saint Laurent

I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello.
Norm Crosby

Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
Graham Chapman

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.
William Shatner

We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.
Donna Karan

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
Joan Collins

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.
John Galliano

Dressing Translations

dressing in Italian is fasciatura

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