mod|ern-dress

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.


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  • mod — mod1 [mäd] n. [< MOD(ERN)] [also M ] any of the young people in England in the mid 1960s noted for their emphasis on stylish dress, often as a symbol of their alienation from conventional society adj. 1. [also M ] of or characteristic of the… …   English World dictionary

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