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Dressing earl, repeatedly endure dressing work (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

elastoplast

'dressing' is the definition.
(Elastoplast is an example)

'earl repeatedly endure dressing work' is the wordplay.
'earl' becomes 'e'.
'repeatedly' shows that letters should be duplicated.
'endure' becomes 'last' ('last' can be a synonym of 'endure').
'dressing' means one lot of letters goes inside another (a dressing is a kind of covering).
'work' becomes 'op' (abbreviation for opus).
'last' duplicated is 'lastlast'.
'lastlast' enclosing 'op' is 'lastoplast'.
'e'+'lastoplast'='ELASTOPLAST'

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