cross-dressing
noun
cross-dress·ing
ˈkrȯs-ˌdre-siŋ 
: the wearing of clothes designed for the opposite sex
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Here too the plot sends her character, the struggling actress and sometime lover of Dustin Hoffman’s cross-dressing soap star, up the river as needed.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
An effeminate, cross-dressing serial killer who murders women staying at his hotel — and gets into arguments with the skeleton of his dead mother — Norman Bates may have been in the closet, but the walls were definitely made of glass.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 June 2024
But before the gender-bending, cross-dressing antics unfold, Harris will encourage Americans to register to vote.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
While looking for belonging, a trans actor becomes best friends with the spirit of William Shakespeare and embraces the gender-fluid, cross-dressing roots in the latter's plays.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2024
Isabelle Eberhardt: Travel’s Rebel with a Cause A hash-smoking, cross-dressing woman traveling the Sahara in the early 1900s, Eberhardt unpicked the fabric of society just by being herself.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
There was a lot of singing and erotic dancing in the barn, but also some serious, pioneering discussions in which psychiatrists from the Kinsey Institute spoke about the psychology of cross-dressing in a safe space.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 June 2024
Big Momma’s House (2000) The Hangover movies look highbrow compared to one of Giamatti’s first major gigs: playing the long-suffering buddy-cop partner to a cross-dressing Martin Lawrence.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
Editor’s picks This kind of closeted representation was less than ideal — as were later visions of non-cisgender identity in horror (see cross-dressing serial killers, like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs).
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2024
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
An effeminate, cross-dressing serial killer who murders women staying at his hotel — and gets into arguments with the skeleton of his dead mother — Norman Bates may have been in the closet, but the walls were definitely made of glass.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 June 2024
But before the gender-bending, cross-dressing antics unfold, Harris will encourage Americans to register to vote.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
While looking for belonging, a trans actor becomes best friends with the spirit of William Shakespeare and embraces the gender-fluid, cross-dressing roots in the latter's plays.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 22 July 2024
Isabelle Eberhardt: Travel’s Rebel with a Cause A hash-smoking, cross-dressing woman traveling the Sahara in the early 1900s, Eberhardt unpicked the fabric of society just by being herself.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
There was a lot of singing and erotic dancing in the barn, but also some serious, pioneering discussions in which psychiatrists from the Kinsey Institute spoke about the psychology of cross-dressing in a safe space.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 June 2024
Big Momma’s House (2000) The Hangover movies look highbrow compared to one of Giamatti’s first major gigs: playing the long-suffering buddy-cop partner to a cross-dressing Martin Lawrence.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
Editor’s picks This kind of closeted representation was less than ideal — as were later visions of non-cisgender identity in horror (see cross-dressing serial killers, like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs).
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2024
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“Cross-dressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cross-dressing. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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