cross-dress

(krôs′drĕs′, krŏs′-)

intr.v. cross-dressed, cross-dress·ing, cross-dress·es

To dress in clothing that is usually worn by the opposite sex.

cross′-dress′er n.

cross′-dress′ing n.

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cross-dressing

the wearing of clothes normally associated with the opposite sex

ˌcross-ˈdresser n

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Translations

cross-dressing

[ˌkrɒsˈdresɪŋ] N → travestismo m

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cross-dressing

[ˌkrɒsˈdrɛsɪŋ] n → travestitismo

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Prosecutors accused the suspect of cross-dressing and posing as a woman to be able to be allowed entry to a woman-only place.

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After all, they were borrowing the cultural cachet from the theater, where cross-dressing goes back centuries.

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The cross-dressing ruse was the tale of the televiewing town because Coco turned out to look like quite a lovely lass-especially his finely-featured face.

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There had also been a recent, much publicized ruling in Guyana's high court on a motion that challenged a colonial law under which persons could be arrested and charged with cross-dressing for an "improper purpose." In 2013 cross-dressing was very much on the Caribbean agenda.

Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Benedicte Ledent & Roberto del Valle Alcala (eds.): The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities

The Indian workers were found cross-dressing and intoxicated in the street.

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The amount of cross-dressing in Shakespeare is also noted.

Drawing on inspiration from the city

As Sherry Velasco signals in her study of representations of male pregnancy during the seventeenth century, the image of the female cross-dresser offered a safe alternative to male cross-dressing, given that at least in the instance of female to male transvestism, the transvestite figure reaches for social privilege, conforming to a "superior" model of subjectivity.

?"Quieres que de hombre / la pinte?": the limitless theater of female transvestism in Golden Age drama