dressed

Etymology

verb

1. simple past and past participle of dress
   the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller

adj

1. Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
2. Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
3. Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
4. (in combination) Wearing a dress.
   No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band. 1972, The Colorado Lawyer, page 26
   hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons 1980, Calamus, page 8
   She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms. 1999, Leslie Thomas, Other Times, page 3