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Definition of Full-dress

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

2. Adjective. (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes. "A full-dress ceremony"

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

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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