Full Dress

Definition: Full Dress

Full Dress

Noun

1. Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Full Dress

Clothing

Array; tailoring, millinery; finery; (ornament); full dress; (show); garniture; theatrical properties.

Fashion

In court, in full dress, in evening dress; en grande tenue; (ornament).

Ornament

In full dress; (fashion); dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue, en grande toilette; in best bib and tucker, endimanche.

Ostentation

Dress; court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress; tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage.

Crosswords: Full Dress

Indian dancers in full dress costume at a pow wow in Browning, MO. Credit: USDA.

In Full Dress uniform, after he became the Navy's ranking officer in 1870. Photographed by the Brady Studio. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed in Full Dress uniform, circa 1937-41. Credit: NAVY.

Portrait photograph in Full Dress uniform, taken circa the later 1920s, when he held the rank of Commander, or during the early 1930s, when he was a Captain. The original photograph was in Bureau of Personnel officer records. Credit: NAVY.

The difference between a man in a full dress suit and full man in a dress suit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Full dress parade inspection, West Point, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Jean Valjean went out in the full dress of a National Guard, and armed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "full dress": in full dress. Additional references.

Albanian

veshje serioze. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لباس السهرة, ‏اللباس الرسمي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

вечерно облекло (soup and fish, white tie). (various references)

Czech

veèerní úbor (evening dress). (various references)

Finnish

juhlapuku (evening dress, full-dress, uniform). (various references)

French

tenue de soirée, tenue de cérémonie, habits de cérémonie. (various references)

German

galauniform (gala uniform), galaanzug (ceremonial dress, formal dress, gala dress). (various references)

Greek 

επίσημοσ ενδυμασία, επίσημο ένδυμα (ceremonial dress, formal dress). (various references)

Hungarian

estélyi öltözék. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

正装 (uniform). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せいそう (be dressed up, cleaning, political strife, testicle, time, uniform, wear rich clothes, years). (various references)

Manx

formoil (ceremonious, formal, stiff). (various references)

Pig Latin

ullfay essdray

Romanian

de ceremonie (ceremonial, state), ţinutã de galã (robes of state). (various references)

Russian 

полная парадная форма. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

široka haljina. (various references)

Swedish

uniform (regimentals, uniform), paraduniform, högtidsdräkt (evening dress, formal dress, mess kit), galauniform, galatoalett. (various references)

Thai

การแต่งกายแบบพิธีการ. (various references)

Turkish

frak (clawhammer coat, dress coat, dress suit, evening dress, frock, frock coat, penguin suit, swallow, swallow coat, swallows, tail coat, tails, white tie), tören elbisesi, resmi kıyafet. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fullers, furless.

-3 letters: druses, duller, dulses, duress, fulled, fuller, furled, fusels, fussed, fusser, sudser, surfed.

-4 letters: delfs, dells, dress, druse, duels, dulls, dulse, dures, fells, feuds, flued, flues, fuels, fulls, furls, fused, fusel, fuses, leuds, ludes, lured, lures, ruled, rules, ruses, selfs, sells, serfs, sleds, slued, slues, slurs, suers, surds, surfs, users.

-5 letters: delf.

+4 letters: distressfully.