Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old form of
cresset . - Bordered with water-cresses.
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Examples
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If one starts with schemes and seeks to clothe reality in a scheme, the result would most likely resemble a 15-year-old boy cressed in the suit of a 5-year-old boy; he bursts out of it; he cannot adjust to it; it does not fit.
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Through all rooms and cabinets, upwards to the topmost belfry: ravenous; seeking arms, seeking Mayors, seeking justice; -- while, again, the better-cressed (dressed?) speak kindly to the Clerks; point out the misery of these poor women; also their ailments, some even of an interesting sort.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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