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overdress
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As a verb, overdress means wear too many clothes for a particular occasion. As a noun, it means any dress (feminine-style garment) worn over another, especially over an underdress.
Meanings of overdress
6 meaningsverb
To wear too many clothes for a particular occasion.
To wear clothing which is too elaborate or formal for a particular occasion.
Dress too warmlybody
“You should not overclothe the child — she will be too hot”
Similar: overclothePut on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractivebody
“She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera”
“The young girls were all fancied up for the party”
Similar: dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up
noun
Any dress (feminine-style garment) worn over another, especially over an underdress.
Any garment worn over another.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).