verb/dʁɛ.se/
to raise, to erect, to build; to raise, to lift, to elevate; to prepare; to draw up; to pitch (a tent); to set, to lay out
“Il sera dressé, par les officiers municipaux, procès-verbal, qui contiendra le récit des faits.” — There shall be prepared, by the municipal officers, a procès-verbal which shall contain an account of facts.
Inherited from Old French drecer, drecier, from Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre (through a contracted form *drēctiāre), from Latin dīrēctus (“straight”), whence the adjective direct. Compare Catalan dreçar, Italian drizzare, Sicilian addizzari, Spanish aderezar, Norman dréchi, Friulian dreçâ.