battledress
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“These are the flashes we wore on our battledress blouses,” says the caption in neat block letters.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2024
Alongside, in full khaki battledress and pith helmet, stood William Shakespear.
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2015
Prince Charles's fading blue polo helmet with red stripes and a pair of worn-looking, leather kneestraps share a glass cabinet with Prince Michael of Kent's battledress blouse form the 1960s.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2010
From a makeshift command post in the Manitoba legislature building last week, a composed, greying soldier in the red-tabbed battledress of a brigadier defended besieged Winnipeg against the city's worst flood in a century.
From Time Magazine Archive
Granted, he was dirty and his battledress was torn, but that was to be expected from someone who had been in combat.
From Youngling A Terran Empire story by Wilson, Ann
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