Meaning & use
Dressing
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A sauce or seasoning mixture added to food, especially a salad; also, material used to cover and protect a wound.
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She drizzled a tangy vinaigrette dressing over the fresh salad.
The nurse changed the dressing on the patient's wound every morning.
A note on using this word
'Dressing' also refers to the act of putting on clothes, and in American English, to a bread-based stuffing served with roasted poultry.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A seasoned mixture of bread, herbs, and other ingredients, cooked as an accompaniment to meat or poultry.
Grandma's cornbread dressing is always the highlight of Thanksgiving dinner.
3. noun
The act or process of putting on clothes.
His morning dressing routine takes less than ten minutes.
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