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dressing-up

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Other games
ˌdressing-ˈup British English, dress-up American English noun [uncountable]  DGOa children’s game in which they put on special clothes and pretend that they are someone else 〔儿童的〕化装游戏
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dressing-upThis involved quite elaborate dressing-up, and the fun and laughter of those Boxing Day nights was a treasure indeed.Instead she advocated a return to elegance ... dressing-up in the widest, and often wildest, sense.Such dressing-up was, like glam rock before it, a boys' affair.
ˌdressing-ˈup nounChineseSyllable
in put which they game on a children’s Corpus special clothes


dressing-up
ˌdressing-ˈup British English, ˌdress-ˈup American English noun [uncountable]
a children’s game in which they put on special clothes and pretend that they are someone else