dress ship

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   decorate a ship with flags

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Questions about dress ship

What does dress ship mean?

dress ship means "decorate a ship with flags".

Is dress ship a common word?

dress ship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.