overdresser

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noun

One who overdresses.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounoverdresser (plural overdressers)

plural overdressers

  1. One who overdresses.

    Good to see that portraying the French as poncey overdressers delights a 21st-century audience as much as it must have done the Elizabethan groundlings.

    2006, Theatre Record, page 942
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    Young men generally have a horror of girls who make them conspicuous, who are flamboyant about cosmetics, who are poseurs, overdressers, who, when asked to a beer party, insist on milk or a highball[…]

    1939, Ladies' Home Journal, volume 56, page 65

    An obsessive overdresser, I was often observed even on summer days wearing a flannel shirt, woolen coat, suit, and atrocious-looking shoes made in Russia.

    2004, David Ohle, The Age of Sinatra, page 106

Origin

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Chicago

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