cross-dressing
noun
cross-dress·ing
ˈkrȯs-ˌdre-siŋ 
: the wearing of clothes designed for the opposite sex
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And Chiara’s cross-dressing sparks an homage to Marcello’s most romantic film, Visconti’s White Nights, this time rescuing a suicidal gay soldier.
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Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2025
The 2006 cult classic twist on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night starred Amanda Bynes as a cross-dressing soccer prodigy and Channing Tatum as the clueless, heartthrob team captain.
—Paulina Prosnitz, airmail.news, 24 Aug. 2024
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.
—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
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Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2025
The 2006 cult classic twist on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night starred Amanda Bynes as a cross-dressing soccer prodigy and Channing Tatum as the clueless, heartthrob team captain.
—Paulina Prosnitz, airmail.news, 24 Aug. 2024
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.
—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
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“Cross-dressing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cross-dressing. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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