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
In things that move, things that are still; Thin motion, even cloudier rest, I see the symbols God hath drest.
From Poems - First Series by J. C. (John Collings) Squire
A State betrays a homely taste, By which the stage is thus disgraced, Where, drest in all the flowers of speech, Dame virtue might her precepts teach.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau
Variations changed to more frequent usage: Commonplace to common-place, despatch/ to dispatch/, drest to dressed, inclos/ to enclos/, inquiries to enquiries, intrust/ to entrust/, steam-boat to steamboat, and unladylike to unlady-like.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie
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