Read full poem →Of all evidence for illustrating the manners and customs of our
Ancestors, their furniture, dresses, plate, jewels, armour, books, and
in short every thing connected with their domestic arrangements or
Dictionary Entry
An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist.
In a Sentence
“Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. dressesdresses whitedresses newdresses silk
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Poetry examples for “dresses”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →wives of the driver and owner smothered in a crush
of white summer dresses and parasols.
Read full poem →girls were further away than ever. Some of them were truly beautiful—their
dresses, their hair, their eyes, the way they stood around. Just to walk down
the street during an afternoon with one, you know, talking about everything
Read full poem →THE TEACHER AND OTHER ESSAYS AND AD-
DRESSES ON EDUCATION. ByGeoige H. Palmer
and Alice Freeman Palmer. Square crown 8to, $1.50,
Read full poem →_Elsie._ What a gay pageant! what bright dresses!
It looks like a flower besprinkled meadow.
Read full poem →Juvenile, with golden tresses,
Finds her pa and dons long dresses.
Scapegrace comes home money-laden,
Read full poem →She dresses aye sae clean and neat,
Both decent and genteel;
Read full poem →I recognized the short, squat, moustached woman in the black
uniform as the night maid who ironed day-dresses and party-frocks
in a crowded cubicle on our floor. I couldn’t understand how she
Read full poem →Scrim of a sea breeze, the women
Settle in their belling dresses.
Read full poem →Became lighter than mist.
Sweet dresses like snow
Our small lady-loves wore,