Definition of "drest"
drest
verb
Obsolete form of dressed; simple past and past participle of dress
Quotations
Rather, it is transmitted by him, for it came originally, so we learn, from a young boy of a French lieutenant, home on leave, and smiling with dreamy happiness over a café-table at the endless procession of clean, neatly drest Parisiens and Parisiennes passing by on the other side.
1915 November 20, “Personal Glimpses: A Scheherezade Tale of the War”, in The Literary Digest, volume LI, number 21 (whole 1335), New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls Company, […], page 1164, column 2