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The term "all-dressed" and its French equivalent toute garnie originally applied to pizza, meaning roughly "everything-on-it", deluxe, or "the works". [1] The term "all-dressed" extended beyond just pizza and found its way into the world of potato chips. Many early references to the flavour all-dressed are linked to pizza flavour potato chips. [1]
Dress-up is a children's game in which costumes or clothing are put on a person or on a doll, for role-playing or aesthetics purposes. In the UK the game is called dressing up. In the mid-1990s, dress-up games also became a video game genre in which customizing a virtual character's appearance is the primary focus.
All Dressed Up is a 1918 silent film short produced and directed by Al Christie. It starred Betty Compson. [1] It is currently considered a lost film. Cast.
The single-volume Chambers Slang Dictionary (Chambers Harrap) was first published in 1998; a second edition appeared in October 2008. [citation needed]Green's most substantial work in this field is Green's Dictionary of Slang: a three-volume slang work which traces, via examples and citations drawn from the last five centuries, the history of the slang vocabulary from the earliest use of every ...
There are many annual events that generate the chance to dress up in fancy dress costumes: Christmas, New Year, birthdays, hen and stag parties, and World Book Day, amongst others. Halloween is the most popular costume or fancy dress event of the year in English-speaking countries. Halloween originated centuries ago, the Celts believed that on ...
One 19th-century English writer said it "used to consist of parties of children, dressed up in fantastic costume, who went round to the farmhouses and cottages, singing a song, and begging for cakes (spoken of as "Soal-cakes"), apples, money, or anything that the good wives would give them". [19]
A basic dress is a usually dark-colored dress of simple design which can be worn with various accessories to suit different occasions. [71] Different kinds of jewelry, belts, scarves, and jackets can be worn with the basic dress to dress up or down. [72] A little black dress is an example of a basic dress.
The dress worn by men is known as Gho which is a robe worn up to knee-length and is fastened at the waist by a band called the Kera. The front part of the dress which is formed like a pouch, in olden days was used to hold baskets of food and short dagger, but now it is used to keep cell phone, purse and the betel nut called Doma .