'Dress goods' definitions:
Definition of 'Dress goods'
From: GCIDE
- Dress goods \Dress" goods"\ A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dress goods'
From: GCIDE
- Good \Good\, n.
- 1. That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil. [1913 Webster]
- There be many that say, Who will show us any good ? --Ps. iv. 6. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc. [1913 Webster]
- The good of the whole community can be promoted only by advancing the good of each of the members composing it. --Jay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]
- He hath made us spend much good. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Dress goods, Dry goods, etc. See in the Vocabulary.
- Goods engine, a freight locomotive. [Eng.]
- Goods train, a freight train. [Eng.]
- Goods wagon, a freight car [Eng.] See the Note under Car, n., 2. [1913 Webster]