redress
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Is redress a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of redress?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.Examples: "Syr ſaid Dynadan I ſhalle gyue you my beholdynge / wel ſaid Palomydes / thenne ſhall ye ſee how we ſhalle redreſſe our myghtes"obsoletetransitive
verb (English)
1. (film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.Examples: "Meanwhile the actors rearranged themselves into a different blocking, as the prop department redressed the set."; "[Val] Lewton would redress standing sets, turning a church into an insane asylum or the staircase for Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons into the staircase for the young girl's apartment in Cat People. […] [Y]ou should be thinking about trying to reuse every location you have as another location, either by using another room or another angle or re-dressing what's already there."
noun (English)
1. (film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.Examples: "The Honeydukes set in this film is a redress of the set of Flourish and Blotts that was seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which, in turn, was a redress of the Ollivander's set from the first film."
Definition source: Wiktionary