dressing
/ˈdɹɛsɪŋ/ noun B2- Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
- A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
- Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
- The activity of getting dressed.
- The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.
- Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
- An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
- Castigation; scolding; a dressing down.
Plural dressings
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I brought down this suit of clothes, and in a quarter of an hour Barker and I had put my dressing gown on him and he lay as you found him.
But on the third morning after his arrival in Hertfordshire, she saw him from her dressing-room window enter the paddock, and ride towards the house.
“And ample for us both,” said Holmes, as he sprang up and hastened to change from his dressing gown to his coat.
He was clad only in a pink dressing gown, which covered his night clothes.
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