Etymology

cross-dress

Today it means: To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex. Full definition →

English dress ← Middle English dressen
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The story

  1. Englishcross-
  2. Middle Englishdressen
  3. Englishdress
  4. English todaycross-dress

From cross- + dress.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.