Definition of Full-dress

1. Adjective. Suitable for formal occasions. "Dress shoes"

Exact synonyms: Dress
Similar to: Formal

2. Adjective. (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes. "A full-dress ceremony"
Exact synonyms: Dress
Similar to: Formal

3. Adjective. Complete in every respect. "A full-dress investigation"
Similar to: Complete

Lexicographical Neighbors of Full-dress

full
full(a)
full-back
full-backs
full-blood
full-blooded
full-blown
full-bodied
full-bore
full-bosomed
full-clad
full-court press
full-deckism
full-deckisms
full-dress (current term)
full-dress uniform
full-face
full-fashioned
full-figured
full-fledged
full-frontal nudity
full-grown
full-hearted
full-length
full-looking
full-made
full-motion video
full-of-the-moon
full-on

Literary usage of Full-dress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
"CHARITY IN full-dress. THE culmination of Maggie's career as an admired member of society in St. Ogg's was certainly the day of the bazaar, when her simple ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The Scottish judges have two sets of robes, one for Justiciary (ie the criminal court), which is also their full dress, and one for civil causes (Court of ..."

3. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1904)
"First Sergeant of Infantry, in full-dress uniform. 14. ... Private of Cavalry, full-dress uniform. 19. Sergeant of Artillery in full-dress uniform. 20. ..."

4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1848 Away for the Capitol—at what in Indiana we call a long lope—not in full dress, by any means. Were a stranger to meet one of us on the way, ..."

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