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full dress
a. See dress n. 2 a. Also fig.
1790Cowper Lett. 17 June, Here am I at eight in the morning in full dress. 1875Lowell Poet. Wks. (1879) 465 The habitual full-dress of his well-bred mind. 1887Spectator 4 June 764/2 A crown that could be worn, like a tiara of diamonds, as an adjunct of full dress.
b. attrib. as in full-dress coat, full dress dinner, full dress rehearsal, full dress suit, etc.; also fig., as in full-dress debate, a formal debate in which important speeches are delivered on each side.
1761Ipswich Jrnl. 24 Jan. 4/1 (Advt.), I have laid in an entire fresh Stock in the Peruke Way, and..will make..full-dress Bobs, from one Pound ten to one Pound fifteen. 1812J. Nott Dekker's Gvlls Horne-bk. 41 note, Not a full-dress coat is made without it. 1834T. Moore Mem. (1856) VII. 47 A Tory of the full dress school. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. II. 526 Pair of full-dress boots. 1879F. W. Robinson Coward Consc. i. viii, A rusty, black, full-dress suit. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. vi. cxi. 600 At present the ‘full-dress debates’ in the Senate are apt to want life. 1893Times 8 July 12/2 Mr. Heneage's amendment is not the best possible text for a full-dress debate. 1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 155/2 Those who like a full-dress word better than a plain one continue to use..it. 1942Amer. Speech XVII. 271/1 It amounted to a full-dress war before it was finished. 1963J. Joesten They call it Intelligence ii. viii. 72 By 1923 Rudolf [Abel] had become a full-dress member of the Communist Party. |