Uniform of a type intended to be worn by soldiers in actual combat.
a hulking first lieutenant in combat dress
Example sentencesExamples
- Marching behind are 15 Japanese samurai wearing combat dress and carrying 4ft-long swords.
- Some participants pass and kick footballs to each other, while others go the distance in full combat dress.
- Five gunmen, dressed in combat dress and balaclavas, fired a volley of shots in the air in front of a cheering crowd.
- As one military analyst noted: ‘Standing on the armoured vehicle with the cannon not capped and in combat dress, that's a show of force.’