fatigue-dress

Theatre often; to attend it in 'fatigue-dress,' and in gentle mood, being neither shocked nor astonished if a good-looking Roman youth should call your attention to the fact that there is a beautiful girl in the box to the left hand, and inquire if you know whether she is the daughter of Santi Stefoni, the grocer?

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

The General, in a fatigue-dress, presented me to Mrs. Van Bummel, a good-looking woman of pleasant dimensions, -- to Miss Bellona Van Bummel, who evidently thought me beneath her notice, -- and to the Reverend Moses Wether, whose mild face, white cravat, and straight-cut collar proclaimed him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

His costume, half uniform and half fatigue-dress, compromised nobody, and was surmounted by a skull cap.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

And now we found that, the church bells being incapacitated, this rattle does duty instead, striking the hours, and occasionally going off into furious fits of clattering, without apparent reason, for ten minutes at a time, till the two men who worked it, who were either convicts or soldiers in fatigue-dress, were tired out.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Sylvia's satin and pearls to the ragged fatigue-dress of her father and brothers; but there was no help for that now, and really it troubled nobody.

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

Sergeant Scott of the Royal Engineers himself, in fatigue-dress, was down on his knees before St. Margaret's oratory, pulling from a crevice in the foundations a knot of grass that was at its insidious work of time and change.

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

Soldiers in canvas fatigue-dress, wearing soft, round, visorless caps, were removing the débris of the fatal barricade; soldiers with shovel and hoe filled in the trenches and raked the long, winding street clean of all litter; soldiers with trowel and mortar were perched on shot-torn houses, mending chimneys and slated roofs so that their officers might enjoy immunity from rain and wind and defective flues.

The Maids of Paradise 1899

That the camp is under military tutelage is apparent from the fact that a tall young man in the loose, ill-fitting blue fatigue-dress of our volunteers, with war-worn belts and a business-like look to the long "Springfield" over his shoulder, comes striding down to the bank and shouts forthwith,

A War-Time Wooing A Story Charles King 1888

They were all men of perfect physique, all in the neat, soldierly fatigue-dress of the regular service, some wearing the spotless white stripes of the infantry, others the less artistic and equally destructible yellow of the cavalry.

From the Ranks Charles King 1888

The individual in the bows of the canoe was clearly a soldier, in a fatigue-dress, and the musket between his legs was one of those pieces that government furnishes to the troops of the line.

Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820