dowdy

IPA: dˈaʊdi

(cooking, transitive) To press the crust into the filling during baking, to allow the juices to caramelize on top.

Examples of "dowdy" in Sentences

What a nice way to show that dressing modestly doesn't have to mean "dowdy" or "drab"!
I admit to initially noticing her because she was kind of dowdy I was in a Starbucks of upscale clientele.
They had been out at General Headquarters, living in dowdy little hotels in Arras ever since October, most of them.
Also, women are so worried about appearing "dowdy," but these paintings do not show magnificent clothing, just feminine clothing -- skirts and dresses.
While girlie, they weren't prim or dowdy, which is surely important to Stuart's typically young customer - someone like Emma Roberts, who sat in the front row.
Her Aunt Mimi isn't beautiful, at least on the outside: she buries her features beneath thick powder, marches around in dowdy clothes and looks old beyond her years.
Have a look at this for a brilliant exposé of how the real flesh, blood, mousy hair and freckles of a 'dowdy' girl next door can be transformed into an unattainable goddess.
The galaxy of handsome women that formed the court of the Emperor had perhaps sent beauty somewhat out of fashion; for the high-born ladies who took their place were what we should call dowdy, and had nothing distinguished in their appearance.