Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of winter-dress.
“I wish you could see Dalsland in Winterdress, it is so beautiful!”
1949, S[ydney] F[rederick] A[rthur] Coles, The Lovely Land: A Lyrical Interpretation of the Realm and People of Sweden, London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., […], page 253 more examples
Charlotte, Empress of Mexico, married the Emperor Maximilian 1859. 196 a. Half-length, in winterdress, with hat, by Weger.
1874, Frederik Muller, “Portraits Relating to America and to Geography in General”, in Catalogue of Books, Maps, Plates, on America, and of a Remarkable Collection of Early Voyages, […], part III a. (Portraits), Amsterdam: Frederik Muller, […], page 11In India, there are only two kinds of dress worn, the summer and the winterdress. The summerdress is usually made of white cotton, jute or silk fabrics.
1896, D. N. Banerjee, “Notes on Hygiene”, in Gerlóczy Zsigmond, editor, Jelentés az 1894. szeptember hó 1-től 9-ig Budapesten tartott VIII-ik Nemzetközi közegészségi és demografiai congressusról és annak tudományos munkálatairól, volume II, Budapest: Pesti könyvnyomda-részvénytársaság, page 757Fig. 2 a, b. Mountain-hare, ♂ ad. (No. 3), in winterdress.[…]Note: winterdress as in “genuine” mountain-hares (WW-animals).[…]Fig. 11 Young “heath-hares” (ww) in winterdress.
1969, Swedish Wildlife, pages 386, 401, and 412
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