Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milit., the uniform prescribed to be worn on occasions of ceremony.
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Examples
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Preteens clustered near the church door, joking with the police officers, whose dress-uniform caps stayed crisp in the rain.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Preteens clustered near the church door, joking with the police officers, whose dress-uniform caps stayed crisp in the rain.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Preteens clustered near the church door, joking with the police officers, whose dress-uniform caps stayed crisp in the rain.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Preteens clustered near the church door, joking with the police officers, whose dress-uniform caps stayed crisp in the rain.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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The door signal buzzed as Reyes was making a final check of his dress-uniform decorations.
Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005
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The door signal buzzed as Reyes was making a final check of his dress-uniform decorations.
Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005
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Filippovich, the Postmaster, Luka Lukich, Dobchinsky and Bobchinsky in full dress-uniform.
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BATF carels, manned by tax-collection agents of the Bureau of Access Time Functions, carefully clad in dress-uniform red, lined the route into and out of Primary Precinct.
Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000
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Odo had acquired, at twenty-two, a nobility of carriage not incompatible with the boyish candour of his gaze, and becomingly set off by the brilliant dress-uniform of a lieutenant in one of the provincial regiments.
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
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Visits of ceremony are made in full dress-uniform for an officer and evening costume for a civilian.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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