fulldress

He lectured one night in “a snow-white fulldress, swallow-tail and all,” as he later described it, and dubbed this “delightful impudence” his “dontcaradam suit.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

He lectured one night in “a snow-white fulldress, swallow-tail and all,” as he later described it, and dubbed this “delightful impudence” his “dontcaradam suit.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

In the decade of the 1920s The New York Times ran over two hundred articles on jazz, including several fulldress articles in its Sunday Magazine.

All That Jazz Collier, James Lincoln 1987

I have slept soundly through scores of fulldress bombardments…

Wyndham Lewis's Trousers Rose, W.K. 1968

"Very well, thank you," he snapped; the midshipman had hardly turned his back before Hornblower was dragging out his sea chest and trying to make up his mind as to how he could get the creases out of his threadbare fulldress coat.

Hornblower And The Crisis Forester, C. S. 1967

On these occasions Commodus wore fulldress boots of a shape precisely as with his official robes but not of the usual color: they had indeed the

Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

I saw, as we entered, only a row of backs of customers standing at the counter: three in noblemen's togas, one in the toga of a senator, their fulldress boots conspicuously red beneath their robes; four in the silken garments of wealthy ladies, all in pale soft hues of exquisite Coan dyes.

Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

His wish was gratified, for a little later he was given an entire outfit, which consisted of both a fulldress uniform and a fatigue suit, as well as belt, shoulder straps, cap, and hat, and several other things.

The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets Edward Stratemeyer 1896

It’s the fulldress Toussaint’s wakeswalks experdition after a bail motion from the chamber of horrus.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Also, she plans to sleep with her date, a major in fulldress uniform who’s just back from Iraq.

Live-blogging Joan and Melissa Rivers | EW.com 2006