Transvest

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex. formal, uncommon

    "[…] both their gender role and their gender status must have been so distinctively androgynous that they probably did not transvest."

Synonyms

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cross dresscross-dress

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"[…] both their gender role and their gender status must have been so distinctively androgynous that they probably did not transvest."

Etymology

Back-formation from transvestite.

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