cross-dress

See also: crossdress

English

From cross- +‎ dress.

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

To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.
- 1976 December 11, Sarah Montgomery, “Plea For Tolerance”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 4:
  The need to cross-dress is no more understood than the natural forms of differing sexual orientation.
(immunology) To display (on the surface of a dendritic cell) antigens produced by a different cell.
- 2006 November 1, Brian P. Dolan et al., “Dendritic Cells Cross-Dressed with Peptide MHC Class I Complexes Prime CD8+ T Cells”, in Journal of Immunology, volume 177, number 9, →DOI, pages 6018–6024:
  Such DC are cross-dressed because they are wearing peptide-MHC complexes generated by other cells.

to wear clothes of the opposite sex

Chinese:
Mandarin: 扮裝／扮装 (zh) (bànzhuāng), 變裝／变装 (biànzhuāng), 異裝／异装 (zh) (yìzhuāng), 易裝／易装 (yìzhuāng), (in a theatrical performance) 反串 (zh) (fǎnchuàn), 男裝／男装 (zh) (nánzhuāng) (cross-dress as a man), 女裝／女装 (zh) (nǚzhuāng)
Finnish: pukeutua ristiin
Irish: trasghléas
Japanese: 男装する (ja) (だんそうする, dansō suru) (cross-dress as a man), 女装する (ja) (じょそうする, josō suru) (cross-dress as a woman)
Polish: przebierać się impf
Russian: переодева́ться (ru) (pereodevátʹsja) (в мужчи́ну OR в же́нщину)