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dress

verb [T] (SHOP WINDOW)
 
 
/dres/

Definition

to decorate a shop window usually with an arrangement of the shop's goods: They're dressing Harrods' windows for Christmas.Decorating or making something attractiveParts of shops, shop fittings and retail activities
(Definition of dress verb (SHOP WINDOW) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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