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dress form

noun

  1. an adjustable dummy used in dressmaking that can be made to conform to a person's figure
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

He has the sort of experience that has become, perhaps, even more valued by consumers than the ability to drape fabric on a dress form.

She bought a vintage dress form from an antique store and asked her longtime model, Dakota Lee, “the Virgin Mary in another sculpture,” to play around with it.

Hempel Irani toyed with scissors, before remembering a favorite photo of the designer, posed with fabric arranged on a dress form.

The dress has spent the last decade in Pittsburgh since Mackey’s 2013 marriage, on a dress form after a specialized cleaning.

“I need to be where they are. I need to see the bolts of fabric they’re not using. I need to see what that item is — on that dress form across the room. Why is it over there? Why have you rejected it already?”

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