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dress-up

[dres-uhp]
–adjective
1. being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed: the first dress-up dance of the season.
–noun
2. Informal. Usually, dress-ups.
a. a person's best clothes: Wear your dress-ups for the reception.
b. accessories or other added features: a car with custom dress-ups.

Origin:
1665–75; n., adj. use of v. phrase dress up
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