well-dressed
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of well-dressed
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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Hanna Rosin can’t stop looking at the Pinterest board, “My Imaginary Well-Dressed Toddler Daughter.”
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2013
October 25, 2010, Well-Dressed Men, Pink Panthers and Paris on Hudson Trying to guess at the lives of straphangers while riding the subway is an age-old pastime.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2010
The premise of The Well-Dressed Ape is that everybody knows human beings are really animals but nobody cops to it linguistically.
From Time Magazine Archive
For years Vogue carried a stock feature labeled "The Well-Dressed Man."
From Time Magazine Archive
Take him for all in all and on the hoof, he might have been posing as a model for a sketch of What the Well-Dressed Man Should Not Wear.
From Indiscretions of Archie by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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