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Verb

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dress off (third-person singular simple present dresses off, present participle dressing off, simple past and past participle dressed off)

  1. (film) For an actor to position themselves relative to another person or object in a scene.

References

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  • Michael Pate (1970) The Film Actor: Acting for Motion Pictures and Television, page 63
  • Richard W. Kroon (2010) A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms, page 228