Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, appropriate for, or requiring full dress; formal.
- adjective Complete in every respect.
- adjective Characterized by exhaustive thoroughness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Appropriate to occasions of form or ceremony: as, a full-dress costume. See
full dress , under dress. - Formal; elaborate; requiring full dress: as, a, full-dress reception.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun full evening dress for men.
- adjective suitable for formal occasions.
- adjective requiring formal clothes; -- of a social event.
- adjective complete in every respect, including formalities; ; a
full-dress investigation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes
- adjective suitable for formal occasions
- adjective complete in every respect
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Examples
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In another picture taken the same year, there is only one person on the sidewalk in front of the Eastern Air Lines building in Rockefeller Plaza, a doorman wearing a full-dress uniform cap.
Mother of the Unconventional William Meyers 2011
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Donald Alston, a large, somewhat florid-faced man in full-dress Air Force uniform.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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After the Great Avatar-Betsey Johnson blowout on Thursday, I don't have it in me to do a full-dress review of the two (!) things we saw last night.
My Friday, By Delia deliasherman 2010
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Until now these were divided between an hourlong documentary and a full-dress performance, both brilliantly conceived, executed, filmed and edited.
Bringing Mahler to the Masses David Littlejohn 2011
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The influence of top-tier producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, whose credits include the Oscar-winning movie version of Chicago, can be felt in those razzle-dazzling moments when a sweaty rehearsal suddenly shifts into a full-dress production number, the dream realized if only in their heads for now.
Monday TV in Review: Smash's Opening Night, Plus House, Castle, and More 2012
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After the Great Avatar-Betsey Johnson blowout on Thursday, I don't have it in me to do a full-dress review of the two (!) things we saw last night.
My Friday, By Delia deliasherman 2010
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Five years of full-dress dinners, Latin grammar, lacrosse, and daily chapel, lacquered me to a glossy Boston-Episcopalian sheen, so that by the time I arrived at Dartmouth
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Donald Alston, a large, somewhat florid-faced man in full-dress Air Force uniform.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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This is the first full-dress show in Britain for half a century.
Gauguin: Maker of Myth Laura Cumming 2010
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On the idea of a full-dress debate, Keefer said, "I'm certain there was never any mention of an audience."
Why no debates in the Mikulski-Wargotz race? Ben Pershing 2010
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