overdresser

English

Etymology

overdress +‎ -er

Noun

overdresser (plural overdressers)

1. One who overdresses.
   • 1939, Ladies' Home Journal, volume 56, page 65:

     Young men generally have a horror of girls who make them conspicuous, who are flamboyant about cosmetics, who are poseurs, overdressers, who, when asked to a beer party, insist on milk or a highball […]

   • 2004, David Ohle, The Age of Sinatra, page 106:

     An obsessive overdresser, I was often observed even on summer days wearing a flannel shirt, woolen coat, suit, and atrocious-looking shoes made in Russia.

   • 2006, Theatre Record, page 942:

     Good to see that portraying the French as poncey overdressers delights a 21st-century audience as much as it must have done the Elizabethan groundlings.