Meanings
plural overdressers
- 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 9422 more examples
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 65An 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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