Drest
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 Obsolete form of dressed; simple past and past participle of dress. alt-of, obsolete
"No arboret with painted blossomes drest, / And smelling sweet, but there it might be found […]"
Example
More examples"As when a snake, that through the winter's cold / lay swoln and hidden in the ground from sight, / gorged with rank herbs, forth issues to the light, / and sleek with shining youth and newly drest, / wreathing its slippery volumes, towers upright / and, glorying, to the sunbeam rears its breast, / and darts a three-forked tongue, and points a flaming crest."
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