battle dress
noun
military field uniform and accouterments, generally camouflaged and stripped of all ornamentation.
Origin of battle dress
1First recorded in 1935–40
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How to use battle dress in a sentence
A dozen men in UN battledress came up and took them prisoner.
Hunter Patrol | Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
British Dictionary definitions for battledress
battledress
/ (ˈbætəlˌdrɛs) /
noun
the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
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