underdress
IPA: ˈʌndɝdrɛs
noun
- (countable) Any dress (feminine-style garment) worn under another, especially under an overdress.
- (countable, uncountable) Any garment (any clothing) that is worn under another but is not underwear.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To dress in insufficiently warm clothes.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dress in insufficiently formal clothes.
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Examples of "underdress" in Sentences
- Under this might be worn a linen underdress.
- Her blue underdress is also trimmed with white fur.
- The Virgin's underdress may be visible, especially at the sleeves.
- A severely plain underdress of heavy white satin formed the foundation.
- The overdress and the underdress may be worn alone, however, if desired.
- The figured underdress has a high front neckline and wide upper sleeves.
- I was reluctant to part with my gauze underdress, but the summoner was impatient.
- I curled up in a corner, in my underdress and cloak, with my saddlebag as a pillow.
- Its getting cold, she said, taking her pinafore off so she wore only her underdress.
- I still remember how pretty and vibrant those over dresses were, with the underdress.
- I took off my headcloth, and pulled my dress and underdress over my head and passed them to Catena with the left sleeve around the chain.
- I wrapped his toes in gauze torn from my underdress, and tucked one foot under my arm and held the other in my left hand, and gave him heat.
- Can you imagine a green this color with a pale yellow, almost a white, combined to make a dress and jacket or an over-dress and underdress .. everything around me this time of year is dressed up in God's beautiful clothing.
- Its left panel frames a standing portrait of Serena, her hair arranged in a thick roll around her head, her person adorned in the high-necked voluminous tunic layered over a tighter-fitting underdress that had become the prevailing fashion for women of late antiquity.
- I'm also wondering if that was possibly done as an alternative to wearing an apron, since with the hem folded up like that any dirt would then fall on the underside of the dress or on the petticoat/underdress, and then once the chore was finished the hem could be let down again and the dirt is not visible.
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