dress form
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The piece is a three-dimensional black box with a white dress made from bath towels and bedazzled gems displayed on a dress form mannequin inside.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025
He has the sort of experience that has become, perhaps, even more valued by consumers than the ability to drape fabric on a dress form.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023
The dress has spent the last decade in Pittsburgh since Mackey’s 2013 marriage, on a dress form after a specialized cleaning.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2022
A cluster of the straw daisies sits on a coffee table facing the dress form.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2018
There was a dress form in another corner of the room, a half-finished pattern still pinned to the body.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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