transvest
English
Etymology
Back-formation from transvestite.
Verb
transvest (third-person singular simple present transvests, present participle transvesting, simple past and past participle transvested)
- (uncommon, formal) To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.
- 2010, Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures:
- […] both their gender role and their gender status must have been so distinctively androgynous that they probably did not transvest.
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Usage notes
This term is rare and formal; the casual cross-dress is much more common.
Synonyms
- cross-dress
Related terms
- transvestism
- transvestist
- transvestite
Translations
cross-dress — see cross-dress