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WELL-DRESSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having tasteful clothing and being scrupulously neat
Synonyms:
well-dressed; well-groomed
Classified under:
Similar:
groomed (neat and smart in appearance; well cared for)
Context examples:
There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I looked: I saw a woman attired like a well-dressed servant, matronly, yet still young; very good-looking, with black hair and eyes, and lively complexion.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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