Dress Dres Long Wear Noun White Wear/Put On/Take

• a long white dress
• to wear/put on/take off a dress
• a young woman in a pink silk dress
• to wear casual/formal dress

dress

1. a piece of women’s clothing that is made in one piece and covers the body down to the legs, sometimes reaching to below the knees, or to the ankles
• SEE ALSO coat dress
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/coat-dress
• a long white dress
• to wear/put on/take off a dress
• a young woman in a pink silk dress

Extra Examples

• She appeared in a slinky satin dress.
• She hitched up her long dress so it wouldn't drag in the mud.
• She looked elegant in a simple black dress.
• She sat down and smoothed her dress over her legs.
• The hat went with her new dress wonderfully.
2. clothes for either men or women
• SEE ALSO evening dress
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/evening-dress
• to wear casual/formal dress
• men and women in traditional Tibetan dress
• a performance of ‘Hamlet’ in modern dress
• He has no dress sense (= no idea of how to dress well).

Extra Examples

• We were allowed to wear casual dress on Fridays.
• He was wearing traditional Scottish dress.

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘put straight’): from Old French dresser ‘arrange, prepare’, based on Latin directus ‘direct, straight’.