battle dress

Examples

• All

• The soldiers wore their battle dress uniforms instead of Class A uniforms to show support for soldiers participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

  Academic text (2003)

• Dating to the fifth century A.D., the discovery offers the most complete picture of Three Kingdoms Period battle dress.

  Academic text (2009)

• All hands, put on battle dress.

  The Caine Mutiny (1954)

• As they work over their weapons and prepare battle dress, Johnny walks through their midst.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The guardsmen wore battle dress uniforms because later that evening they would be patrolling the streets of New Orleans.

  Academic text (2006)

• The walls teemed with men, elves in battle dress with weapons in hand, their lines of defense stretched across the battlements.

  Fiction book (1992)

• According to Costello, "Oliver's Army" was inspired by a 1978 Belfast visit when he "saw mere boys walking around in battle dress with automatic weapons."

  Academic text (2013)

• Instead, Jay Talley walks in wearing ATF battle dress and a day's growth of beard that turns his dark beauty sinister.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Fagin was standing under a high arc light and watching his marshals suiting up Banish in a BDU, a battle dress uniform, black fatigues.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The soldiers wore their battle dress uniforms instead of Class A uniforms to show support for soldiers participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Synonyms

M

military uniform

vsbattle dress

8 2.9

Clothes that soldiers and other people in the armed forces wear to show who they are and for official duties

is the combat field version used specifically during operations rather than ceremonial wear

Antonyms

D

dress uniform

• Specialized

8 4.1

A formal uniform worn by people in the military for ceremonies and official events

C

civilian clothing

1 2.0

Clothes that people who are not in the military or police wear

How Practical

battle dress

• Specialized

1 6.0

combat boot

7 3.4

military uniform

8 2.9

ceremonial

• Formal

60 5.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology