I thought my son was being quite sneaky lately. Sure enough, I spotted him uploading a picture of himself cross-dressing and in makeup to a blog.
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Cross-dressing
Synonyms for "cross-dressing" (3 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 19 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- kruiskleding noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Albanian
1 entries- ndërveshja noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Catalan
1 entries- transformisme noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 反串 noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- 易裝 /易装 noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- 異裝 /异装 noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- 變裝 /变装 noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Dutch
1 entries- travestie noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Finnish
1 entries- ristiinpukeutuminen noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
French
1 entries- transformisme noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Georgian
1 entries- ქროს-დრესინგი noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Greek
1 entries- παρενδυσία noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Hungarian
1 entries- keresztöltözésnek noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Indonesian
1 entries- berlintas-busana noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Irish
1 entries- trasghléasadh noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Japanese
2 entries- 女装 noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- 男装 noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Korean
4 entries- 남장 noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- 시디 noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- 여장 noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- 크로스드레싱 noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Polish
1 entries- crossdressing noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Portuguese
1 entries- transformismo noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Russian
1 entries- кроссдре́ссинг noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Spanish
4 entries- transformismo noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- transvestismo noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- trasvestismo noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- travestismo noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Ukrainian
2 entries- крос-дре́синг noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
- кросдре́синг noun (wearing clothes of the opposite gender)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Sami was cross-dressing.
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She made two films that talk about the cultural history of cross-dressing.
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Now, a study published in Nature shows that cross-dressing does indeed occur and is important for boosting memory CD8+ T cell responses in vivo.
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