drest
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Members of Congress: “little mannikins, shrewd, gabby, drest in black, hopping about, making motions, amendments.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2020
The quote from Blake might be bookended by one from Walt Whitman, who wrote that “whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020
Signior, my Lady is not drest, and I shall displease her, in admitting even you, without her Leave.
From The Perjur'd Husband by Centlivre, Susanna
Must then Alonzo be deny'd Admittance, Under that poor Pretence that she's not drest?
From The Perjur'd Husband by Centlivre, Susanna
"Robene, in dule I am so drest, That lufe will be my bone."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
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