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well-dressed

[ wel-drest ]

adjective

  1. attired in clothing that is of good quality, is properly fitted, and is appropriate and becoming.


well-dressed

adjective

  1. neatly, expensively, or fashionably attired
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of well-dressed1

First recorded in 1570–80
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Example Sentences

In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.

A well-dressed young man engaged him in conversation, and mentioned that he was a musician.

“This poor guy has a pea coat on,” he says, pointing to a well-dressed youngster in the front row.

Gathered in a cavernous underground hotel ballroom in Washington D.C., all the young people were serious and well dressed.

Would a bisexual man be half as sassy as a gay one, or half as well dressed?

He was a big man, and looked bigger than he was; good-looking too; ruddy, portly, well-dressed and formal.

As for the girl struggling with the second woman—the one called “Martha”—she was not very well dressed.

Harmony—To appear well dressed without harmony, both in color and materials, is impossible.

He had the unmistakable air of the dissipated life; he was well dressed, and handsome, in a picturesque way.

In the well-dressed women I saw to-night, I had great difficulty in recognising the slatterns of the other morning.

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