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
Of all the nymphs so deckt and drest Like Venus of the starry train, She was the loveliest and the best, The pride and glory of the plain.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau
All the young maidens fra fourteen to thirty-nine, six-abreast, drest i sky blue, and singin throo combs.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
Signior, my Lady is not drest, and I shall displease her, in admitting even you, without her Leave.
From The Perjur'd Husband by Susanna Centlivre
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