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'The Baby's Opera',

a book of Old Rhimes with new dresses by Walter Crane, first publication, 1877.

Farvardin Daliri

Snapshot: Above, a giant kookaburra that Farvardin Daliri built in his yard in Brisbane, Australia, to make people laugh. The replica cackles its distinctive laugh from a sound system he installed inside. “My way of art is to worship what’s in front of me,” he told our reporter.

Of her own birth, Dorothy Parker said: “[it was] the last time I was ever early for anything.” Literary Hub on the political activist, melancholic, and bootleg Scotch-drinker whose razor-sharp wit is still making readers cackle over 50 years after her death.

Dorothy Parker, writer, New York, June 17, 1958

dressed

adjective [ after verb ]

 UK ​ /drest/ US ​ /drest/

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A2 wearing clothes and not naked:

I usually get dressed before I eat breakfast.

He was dressed in a dark grey suit.

The party guests came early, and I wasn't fully dressed (= didn't have all my clothes on).

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B1 wearing clothing of a particular type:

a well-dressed/casually dressed man

More examples

• The two sisters were always dressed identically.
• The little pageboys were dressed in kilts and the bridesmaids in pink dresses.
• I'm not properly dressed for this sort of weather.
• She was dressed casually in jeans and a sweatshirt.
• We can't go yet - I'm only half dressed.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Idioms

dressed (up) to the nines

dressed to kill

(Definition of “dressed” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

dress

/drɛs/

verb

3rd person present: dresses

1. 1.

   put on one's clothes.

   "Graham showered and dressed quickly"

   Similar:

   put on clothes

   don clothes

   slip into clothes

   clothe oneself

   get dressed

   Opposite:

   undress
2. 2.

   decorate (something) in an artistic or attractive way.

   "she'd enjoyed dressing the tree when the children were little"

   Similar:

   decorate

   adorn

   ornament

   trim

   deck

   bedeck

   embellish

cackle

/ˈkak(ə)l/

verb

1. 1.

   laugh in a loud, harsh way.

   
   

   "she cackled with laughter"

   synonyms:

   laugh loudly, laugh uproariously, guffaw, crow, chortle, chuckle, giggle, tee-hee; informallaugh like a drain "Noel left the room, cackling with glee"

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noun

1. 1.

   a loud, harsh laugh.

   
   

   "her delighted cackle"