Where does “drest” come from?

Drest is the archaic past tense and past participle of dress, from Old French dresser meaning to arrange or prepare, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *dressare, a derivative of Latin dirigere meaning to direct.

drest (English): Obsolete form of dressed; simple past tense and...

Definitions

  1. Obsolete form of dressed; simple past tense and...

Ancestry of “drest”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishdressedsimple past tense and past participle of dress;...

Words derived from “drest

Every word from English dressed