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dress up

verb as in put on one's best clothes

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A grandmother in rural Zambia has become an accidental style icon and internet sensation - after agreeing to play dress-up and swapping outfits with her fashionista granddaughter.

From BBC

The video closed out Beyonce's costume dress-up with the caption "Happy Beylloween."

From Salon

"Donald Trump, a 78-year-old who’s never earned a real paycheck in his life, put on a show, playing dress-up to act like he’s one of us."

From Salon

Playing dress-up at her grandmother’s, where she’d deck herself to the nines in borrowed costume jewelry, she soon found out that what was encouraged by her open-minded family was derided in the outside world.

A post from April, claiming that Beyoncé was criticized for “playing dress-up” by releasing country music, received more than 50,000 shares and 28,000 comments.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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