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English
Adjective
over-dressed (comparative more over-dressed, superlative most over-dressed)
- Alternative form of overdressed.
1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, page 13:He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.
1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill., : Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 91:He was a vulgar, over-dressed fellow, of about thirty-five or forty, of slender yet sinewy build. He wore a plum-colored overcoat, lavender kids, patent-leather shoes, and a shiny silk hat.
1910, Baroness Orczy, chapter 9, in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, London: Cassell, page 234:In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the profession all over her pretty, painted face.
1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Invisible Man”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:They both lived on money of their own, and were wearisomely idle and over-dressed.