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Some posts on social media called on people to dress up and gather for a "night of darkness".

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

The packed crowd in Manchester was in boisterous mood with many fans in fancy dress, but this was darts with a difference.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Spooky season culminates tomorrow, and my colleagues have put together a frightfully good list of what to brew, read, and dress up as to get your weekend off to the right start:

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

Commodus’s idea of a good time was to dress up in gladiator costume and kill scores of wild animals in the Colosseum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

I’d have liked to run, but running wasn’t something a lady did in a gigantic dress and ridiculous shoes that pinched.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

"The younger man dresses up to look serious, and the older man dresses down to look like one of the guys."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Paxton is nobody’s idea of a handsome man, but it’s simply not true that he dresses poorly.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

DoorDash—now a $78 billion company—has been expanding beyond restaurants to delivering dresses from Macy’s, paper towels from Costco and cold medicine from CVS.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

By the standards of “Street Fighter,” Ken and Ryu are actually fairly normal — this is a bizarro universe in which Bison dresses like a Nazi fashionista, complete with flowing cape and a peaked cap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Once the Upstairs Cranstons are off across the you-know-what in all the wrong dresses, you will have Louise on your hands. She is entirely too attached to Camilla Cranston, and where does that leave you?”

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

“For a while, people had no idea what to do with a comedian who also dressed up like a goblin. They literally looked at me like I was crazy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Some were dressed in Palestinian jerseys, had tied Palestinian and Irish flags to themselves, and many were wearing keffiyeh scarves, a symbol of Palestinian identity.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Jordan's King Abdullah II visited the injured in the hospital, dressed in military fatigues and carrying a pistol on his hip.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

For many people the chilly weather and needing to get dressed up in thick, cosy clothes is part of the appeal, she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

One morning, Don Quixote, dressed in full armor, was riding along the beach.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Members of Congress: “little mannikins, shrewd, gabby, drest in black, hopping about, making motions, amendments.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2020

The quote from Blake might be bookended by one from Walt Whitman, who wrote that “whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020

So the king drest him-self so that he would not be known, and went at night with two of his men to see the witch of En-dor.

From Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood by Josephine Pollard

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From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright

It was drest of Course, and the Suppuration that attended it, entirely cured the Rheumatism.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

From the polished marble floors and chef’s kitchen to the boutique-style dressing room and rooftop skyline views, the residence offers a glimpse at the upscale lifestyle associated with one of the NBA’s prominent young stars.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

As a manager going into troubled clubs, you have to immediately set your non-negotiable principles with your players - things like hard work and a collective spirit in the dressing room were imperative for me.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Chop herbs, grate cheese, cut citrus wedges and assemble any salads, keeping the greens and dressing separate.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

I have always believed in building a family togetherness within the dressing room, with a commitment from every player to the benefit of the team.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

I rushed up to Alterations and found Miss Lacey over by the dressing rooms.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu