Kimono vs Dress - What's the difference?
kimono | dress |
A traditional Japanese robe-like garment that is now generally worn only in formal occasions.
A yukata.
A long robe-like garment.
(countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
A dress rehearsal.
(obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
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*:but syr Gawayns spere brak / but sir marhaus spere helde / And therwith syre Gawayne and his hors russhed doune to the erthe / And lyghtly syre Gawayne rose on his feet / and pulled out his swerd / and dressyd hym toward syr Marhaus on foote
To adorn, ornament.
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*Tennyson
*:dressing their hair with the white sea flower
*Carlyle
*:If he felt obliged to expostulate, he might have dressed his censures in a kinder form.
(nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.5:
*:Daily she dressed him, and did the best / His grievous hurt to guarish, that she might.
*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) :
*:he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
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To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
:to dress''' leather or cloth; to '''dress''' a garden; to '''dress''' grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to '''dress ores, by sorting and separating them
* Bible, Exodus xxx. 7
*Dryden
*:three hundred horsessmoothly dressed
To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
(military, ambitransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align. Sometimes an imperative command.
:to dress the ranks
:Right, dress !
To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
As nouns the difference between kimono and dress
is that kimono is kimono while dress is (countable) an item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes skirts below the waist.As a verb dress is
(obsolete|reflexive|intransitive) to prepare oneself; to make ready.kimono
English
Alternative forms
* (rare) (l)Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
In Japanese, a yukata is not considered to be a type of kimono, except in the broad meaning of kimono of clothing .Derived terms
* (l)External links
* (wikipedia) English borrowed terms ----dress
English
Noun
citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
Derived terms
* dress code * dress rehearsal * dress shirt * nightdress * wedding dressVerb
citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.
- When he dresseth the lamps he shall burn incense.