dressing
Origin of dressing
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Drizzle the dressing over the watermelon and cucumber and gently toss to coat, then add the mint.
Watermelon and cucumber salad is as refreshing as it is easy to make | Ellie Krieger | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostTech and FashionVirtual reality dressing rooms you can use to try on clothes.
Peel and cut the apples the same size as the potatoes and toss with the dressing.
Apples make this Puerto Rican potato salad a savory, sweet and polarizing side dish | Aaron Hutcherson | July 14, 2021 | Washington PostParenting activities included reading, arts and crafts, homework, driving to and from extracurricular activities, basic care, such as feeding and dressing, and the time mothers spent on behalf of children, such as researching summer camps.
The gap in parenting time between middle- and working-class moms has shrunk | Sujata Gupta | July 9, 2021 | Science NewsIt’s not the same scale as the one in Big, but the most fun you can have at reawakening New York theater right now is in a dressing room of the Signature Theater on 42nd Street.
Ann Dowd Goes From ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Villain Aunt Lydia to ‘Enemy of the People’ | Tim Teeman | July 2, 2021 | The Daily Beast
He once experimented with dressing as “Hilda the Wicked Witch” as a way to expand his business to Halloween.
Kerry Bentivolio: The Congressman Who Believes in Santa Claus | Ben Jacobs | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe incident sparked his belief in Santa, but he would have to wait nearly two decades before dressing up as Jolly St. Nick.
Kerry Bentivolio: The Congressman Who Believes in Santa Claus | Ben Jacobs | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFollowers had traveled many miles to mourn the loss, and aid in the ritual washing, dressing, and honoring of the body.
Jail Threats for Sierra Leone Ebola Victims’ Families | Abby Haglage | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIs this your first time dressing in drag, or have you ever had an Ed Wood moment?
Michael C. Hall on Going Drag for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ and Exorcising ‘Dexter’ | Marlow Stern | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTToss the string beans and mesclun with enough dressing to moisten.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettShe was in a soiled dressing gown of purple flannel, with several of the buttons off.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonThen she noticed the letter which the child had given her, still lying on the dressing table, with her gloves.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonBut Mary had gone home after dressing her mistress, and the fat boy came back again more disturbed than before.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles DickensAn argument took place in a coffee-house, between two men of taste, as to the best method of dressing a beefsteak.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | Various
British Dictionary definitions for dressing
/ (ˈdrɛsɪŋ) /
a sauce for food, esp for salad
US and Canadian a mixture of chopped and seasoned ingredients with which poultry, meat, etc, is stuffed before cooking: Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): stuffing
a covering for a wound, sore, etc
manure or artificial fertilizer spread on land
size used for stiffening textiles
the processes in the conversion of certain rough tanned hides into leather ready for use
- See also dressings
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