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Definition of Drest
1. p. p. of Dress.
Definition of Drest
1. Verb. (obsolete) (past participle of dress) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drest
1. dress [v] - See also: dress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drest
Literary usage of Drest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"But who encounter'd these mishaps—and who caught cold and fever— And who drest
well—and who drest badly spite of best endeavour— And what new lights in love ..."
2. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"THE booths in fairs were commonly drest with ivy leaves, as a token of wine there
sold, the ivy being sacred to Bacchus; so was the tavern bush, ..."
3. The Seasons by James Thomson (1810)
"Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest,
And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest ! ..."
4. The Irish Version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius by Nennius, James Henthorn Todd, Algernon Herbert (1848)
"I would propose to read the passage thus: " Duo drest, ie drest filius ...
et [for the .i. here either signifies " ie" or is a mistake for et] drest filius ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"We have quoted Dionysius of Halicarnassus in relation to the arrangement of words
in " ' The fresh earth in new leaves drest,' " where nearly every word ..."
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