battle dress


noun
  1. military field uniform and accouterments, generally camouflaged and stripped of all ornamentation.

Origin of battle dress

1
First 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
  1. the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers

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