Cross-dressとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From cross- +‎ dress.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈkɹɔsˈdɹɛs/, /ˈkɹɒsˈdɹɛs/

動詞

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

1. 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.

2. (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.

同意語

• transvest (formal)

派生語

• cross-dresser
• cross-dressing