dressings

British

/ ˈdrɛsɪŋz /

plural noun

dressed stonework, mouldings, and carved ornaments used to form quoins, keystones, sills, and similar features

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Enjoy them in homemade protein bowls without the slop, alongside creamy avocado, roasted vegetables and your favorite dressings.

From Salon • May 1, 2026

Clorox brands include eponymous cleaners and run the gamut of consumer products, including Fresh Step cat litter, Kingsford charcoal and Hidden Valley Ranch dressings.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026

This included persuading the War Office of the benefits of using sphagnum moss for wound dressings.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

The team is now looking into how nanotechnology-inspired dressings could be designed to boost this effect even further.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025

Instead he looked to our own Greek diet— our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads, ourpilafi, raisins, and figs—as potential curatives, as life-giving, artery-cleansing, skin-smoothing wonder drugs.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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