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From Middle English dressing, dressinge, dressynge, equivalent to dress +‎ -ing.

dressing (countable and uncountable, plural dressings)

  1. (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎[1]:
      She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.
  2. (cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
    • 2021 July 21, Gabrielle Hamilton, “A Salad So Good You Can Eat It for Breakfast”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN:
      I was even more excited to tailor it with a choice of dressings — blue cheese, ranch, French, Russian, Italian, creamy Italian.
  3. Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
  4. The activity of getting dressed.
    • 2004, Kathryn Banks, Joseph Harris, Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations, page 182:
      Considered thus, the performance is a translation into images of bodies on display, as is well demonstrated by Monsieur Jourdain's repeated dressings and undressings.
  5. (obsolete) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
  6. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.
    Synonym: forcemeat
  7. Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
  8. An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
  9. (dated) Castigation; scolding; a dressing down.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 71:
      "I once saw what a dressing he gave a silly chattering fool, that answered his challenge some time before."
  10. (dated) The process of extracting metals or other valuable components from minerals.
  11. (Maine) Manure that's applied to one's garden.

material applied to a wound

sauce, especially a cold one for salads — see also salad dressing

activity of getting dressed

stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc. — see forcemeat

From Middle English dressynge, dressande, equivalent to dress +‎ -ing.

dressing

  1. present participle and gerund of dress

Borrowed from English dressing.

dressing m (plural dressings, diminutive dressinkje n)

  1. a dressing, a cold sauce for salads

Borrowed from French dressing.

dressing m (plural dressings, diminutive dressinkje n)

  1. (Belgium) walk-in closet, dressing room
    Synonym: inloopkast

dressing m (plural dressings)

  1. dressing room (small walk-in room off a bedroom)
    Synonym: dressing room
  2. wardrobe

dressing

  1. alternative form of dressynge

dressing

Unadapted borrowing from English dressing.

dressing m inan

  1. dressing (sauce, especially a cold one for salads)

dressing c

  1. dressing (sauce)