- mod|ern-dress
- mod|ern-dress «MOD uhrn DREHS», adjective.1. (of a play) produced or performed with the actors dressed in modern fashion, or with modern scenery in the background to make it up-to-date: »
a modern-dress version of Hamlet.
2. (of a literary work, especially fiction) up-to-date, as in setting or characterization; in or having a modern setting: »Faulkner's “A Fable” is a modern-dress account of the Passion of Jesus.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.