Full dress, as we call it, is so full of beauty that it cannot hold it all, and the redundancy of nature overflows the narrowed margin of satin or velvet.
He looked well and that is saying a good deal; for nothing but a gentleman is endurable in full dress.
Murray Bradshaw was fairly dazzled with the brilliant effect of Myrtle in full dress.
The small cabin was tolerably filled by Cuban ladies in full dress.
But how can anything characteristic be said or done among a dozen people sitting at table in full dress?
The serjeant's full dress is a cloth robe, scarlet for state occasions, black in term time, and purple on the red letter days of the almanac if in term.
The Queen's Counsel's full dress gown is of figured black silk, tufted all over like a parish clerk's.
The table service was formerly performed for the Queen by the lady of honour and four women in full dress; this part of the women's service was transferred to them on the suppression of the office of maids of honour.
At noon the women who had been in attendance four and twenty hours were relieved by two women in full dress; the first woman went also to dress herself.
When in full dress, Brown wore a hat richly ornamented and trimmed with beautiful gold lace, which was then fashionable among the first ranks in Scotland, particularly among the officers of the army.
The ladies also were in full dress, and the boxes crowded, so that one could scarcely recognise the house.
Of the country we have, from the same reason, seen little, and the people we are only acquainted with in full dress, which is not the way to judge of them truly.
There were ladies in full dress, and gentlemen in white jackets--rather inconsistent.
Madame Franchimeau was a large woman, with large features, and a figure that was very bad in dishabille, and very good in full dress.
Defn: The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dress, full dress, etc.
At the time of, conveying some notion of cause or motive; as, on public occasions, the officers appear in full dress or uniform.
To be in full feather, to be in full dress or in one's best clothes.
Full dress, the dress prescribed by authority or by etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony.
Scarcely a girl in Quebec would have declined the excitement of a race on the highroad of St. Foye, and Agathe would fain have driven herself in the race, but being in full dress to-day, she thought of her wardrobe and the company.
Sometimes, when the ceremony of dedication is finished, the hide is cut into small strips, and the members of the family wear parts of it tied over the head, or across the forehead, when they are in full dress.
They are all in full dress, decolletees, without hats.
Colonel Browne had ordered them beforehand, and had them in full dress, with knapsacks, as I desired.
We watched the different corps forming to the stirring bugle and trumpet sounds, the officers mounting their horses, all splendid in velvet housings, the officers in the fullest of full dress.
The small space was tolerably filled by Cuban ladies in full dress.
If the wedding is in the morning, the bride and family may wear full dress; in that case the shutters should be closed and the rooms lighted as in the evenings.
If she comes in late from the opera or a party, in full dress, she should not come into the supper-room, unless her escort accompanies her.
The soldiers stationed here always mount guard in full dress, and many a sly leer of the eye is bestowed upon them by the hundreds of pretty girls that pass in and out during a day.
The men and officers all attend Divine service in full dress, with swords; and where they have to attend a church out of barracks, a portion of the sitting accommodation is especially set apart for their use.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "full dress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
