in drag

1. Wearing clothes normally worn by the opposite sex, as in All of the actors in the revue were in drag. This expression originally alluded to male actors wearing women's apparel on stage, especially for comic purposes, but also refers to cross-dressing by homosexuals. [Colloquial; c. 1870]

Example Sentences

CD: How do you think your roots in drag culture informs what you create today?

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In drag, you can do so much with such little material or proper experience.

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Such portraits create a surprisingly revealing context for Surrealist Man Ray’s “Rrose Sélavy,” the famous photographs of Dada artist Marcel Duchamp in drag, bundled up in a cloche hat and fur-collared coat, eyeliner carefully smudged and lip gloss crisp.

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Dressed in a revealing keyhole dress and towering beehive wig, Carpenter comes to Simon Says for the ambience and the chance to dress in drag.

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His brilliant yuletime hit, “The Hard Nut,” based on Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” has been delighting audiences of all ages for three decades, but it does happen to include a comedic maid in drag.

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