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dress

 
/dres/ n [C/U] (PIECE OF CLOTHING)

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› a piece of clothing for a woman that covers the top of the body and part or all of the legs: [C] Cindy wore a black dress to the party. › Dress is also clothes of a particular type or style: [U] military dress
(Definition of dress n (PIECE OF CLOTHING) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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