drest
Americanverb
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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
Whose snowy cheekes, least joy should be exprest, The weeping pen with sable teares hath drest.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
The hills around Stand proud in order with the valleys deep, The hills with pastures drest, with tall trees crowned, And the low valleys dipt in sunny sleep.
From Poems by Shanks, Edward
“From his awful head Whom Jove brought forth, in warlike armor drest, Golden, all radiant.”
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)
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