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• present participle of dress.

dressing

American  

[dres-ing] / ˈdrɛs ɪŋ /

noun

• dressings
  plural

1. the act of a person or thing that dresses.

2. a sauce for food.

   salad dressing.

3. stuffing for a fowl.

   turkey dressing.

4. material used to dress or cover a wound.

5. manure, compost, or other fertilizers.

6. the ornamental detail of a building, especially that around openings.

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dressing British  

/ ˈdrɛsɪŋ /

noun

1. a sauce for food, esp for salad

2. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): stuffing.  a mixture of chopped and seasoned ingredients with which poultry, meat, etc, is stuffed before cooking

3. a covering for a wound, sore, etc

4. manure or artificial fertilizer spread on land

5. size used for stiffening textiles

6. the processes in the conversion of certain rough tanned hides into leather ready for use

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dressings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of dressing

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at dress, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

dressing dressings

So the Caesar-ish dressing here is intentionally concentrated: cream cheese for body, Kewpie for tang and richness, and a dab of white miso for the salty, fermented funk that anchovy ordinarily brings to Caesar.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Chelsea appointed Xabi Alonso as manager, believing he had the profile and authority to command the dressing room.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

And in a shift in strategy, veterans Jordan Henderson and Danny Welbeck were brought in to add experience and their consummate professionalism to the Chelsea dressing room.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

From her dressing work for the likes of Ye and Don Toliver, to her brooding, textured paintings and sculptural vessels, she conjures beauty into something we can see and touch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

If they dare enter my dressing room, I shall .

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Medical applications include wound dressings, drug delivery systems, and resorbable implants or sutures that slowly degrade inside the body.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Gruel recalls growing up in what he calls the “microwave generation,” in a house stocked with cereal, pasta, refined carbohydrates and premade salad dressings.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

For humans, the abundant minerals and anti-inflammatory properties of certain seaweeds have seen their extracts used in medicines from treating acid reflux to wound dressings.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

It rolled out a new range of products, called Taylor Farms Zero, using olive and avocado oil in its dressings and dips instead of seed oils.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

“I’ll wash you up. But we can’t do anything to the dressings until the doctor comes.”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

Related Words

• filling
• stuffing