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drest

[ drest ]

verb

, Obsolete.
  1. a simple past tense and past participle of dress.


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The lower had an enormous window, through which I could see a man, very richly drest, pacing to and fro.

Brisk as a body-louse she trips,Clean as a penny drest; Sweet as a rose her breath and lips,Round as the globe her breast.

I wonder, is Don Fernando drest—Oh, here comes the servant, in his proper habiliments!

She drest herself, frightened and tremulous at the mere idea of seeing again that dear house.

On the marble couch within are stretched two figures, carved in stone and drest in the antique garb of the Middle Ages.

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