dressed up

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Dressed-up role-players, who demonstrate such crafts as coopering and pottery, help bring alive Portsmouth’s past and make you feel that you, too, might have loved life in Colonial times.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2013

Dressed-up children were flitting along the side streets, hurrying their seniors.

From The Court of Boyville by Lowell, Orson

Dressed-up ghosts had become common, and she did not care for them, so the blanket exercise was to be the next mode of hardening her nerves. 

From Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn