all-dressed
Britishadjective
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These illustrations can be idiosyncratic; the entry for “all-dressed,” a term denoting a dish served with all possible condiments and a potato-chip flavor based on this, displays a photograph of a very plain-looking bag of potato chips; “garburator,” the Canadian term for a garbage disposal, has a somewhat blurry picture of one in a kitchen sink, with the photo credited to the D.C.H.P.-2’s chief editor.
From The New Yorker
The frequent presence of “all-dressed,” otherwise associated with French-speaking provinces, in English-speaking Saskatchewan, is described as “a bit of a mystery,” for example.
From The New Yorker
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