cross-dressing
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈkrɔsˌdrɛsɪŋ/
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travestismo
- In her performance art piece, she explored the theme of cross-dressing to critique societal norms regarding gender identity.
- cross-dressing and gender
- a cross-dressing woman
There's going to be no theatrics, no fancy costumes, and absolutely no cross dressing.
- There's going to be no theatrics, no fancy costumes, and absolutely no cross dressing.
- And, and even when the instances of cross dressing would come up, most of that happened after we had children.
- Of course there are some papers on how cross dressing became more of a cultural phenomenon for those men, but I am not an expert on that.
- No money, no clothes, cross dressing with each of those clothes on all the time, No food.
Examples
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Within a year, the raucous Saturday night cross-dressing became a thing of the past.
Fiction book (1994) -
But the fact remains that cross-dressing was against the law in Elizabethan England and was prosecuted as such.
Academic text (2003) -
So if you want to say we had a game last year which was about people cross dressing to get into the French theatre.
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And so I was secretly cross dressing and hiding everything I was doing.
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I do a little cross-dressing on the weekends.
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In the sixth grade, Ryan began cross-dressing and announced that he was gay.
Academic text (2013) -
It's an epic drama of love, danger, and cross-dressing.
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So Corinne told him about Alice Austen, her photojournalism, her witty, experimental social criticism, and her cross-dressing.
Fiction book (1998) -
Purim is the Jewish carnival, a day on which the consumption of alcohol is traditionally encouraged and the prohibitions against cross-dressing are removed amid the revelry that celebrates the heroes of the story.
Academic text (2010) -
During the festival, many participants engaged in cross-dressing to celebrate diversity and challenge traditional gender roles.
Synonyms
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9.3
Dressing and sometimes acting like the opposite sex
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9.9
An act of dressing and behaving like the opposite sex to show who someone is or for performance
How Theatrical
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Surface Forms
Morphology
cross-dressing = cross-dress (transparent) = cross + dress + ing
The noun is directly formed from the verb 'cross-dress' with the gerundive suffix '-ing', so the meaning is the activity of cross-dressing.
Etymology
The word cross-dressing joins cross- (meaning 'across') and dress ('clothes'), so a helpful image is 'crossing' the usual clothing line. So cross-dressing means wearing clothes that are usually worn by the opposite sex.