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unˈdressing, vbl. n.
[f. undress v.]
The action of taking off (one's own or another's) clothes.
1677Miége Fr. Dict. ii. s.v., The Undressing of one. 1741–3Wesley Jrnl. (1749) 60 Our children were always put into a regular method of living,..as in dressing, undressing, changing their linen, etc. 1789Gouv. Morris Diary 27 May, So we have the whole performance of undressing and dressing except the shift. 1824Byron Juan xvi. xi, But next to dressing for a rout or ball, Undressing is a woe. 1866Kingsley Herew. xiv, The queen-countess' chamber, where a solemn undressing of that royal lady..took place.
attrib.1697Potter Archæol. Græca I. 40 The Undressing⁓room. 1862E. Falkener Ephesus i. iv. 93 The large room at the back might be the apodyterium, or undressing-room. |