a. Fully dressed; wearing full dress. † Of a coat: = prec. b.

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1752.  A. Murphy, Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 14, ¶ 2. In a full-dressed Coat, with long Skirts.

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1806.  T. S. Surr, Winter in Lond. (ed. 3), III. 161. I have no objection in the world to full-dressed assemblies.

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1824–9.  Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. 1846, I. 206/2. I would rather see Grammar a shrew than a slattern. There are hours and occasions when she needs not be full-dressed; there are none when it is pardonable in her to come down with tangled hair.

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