Historical Examples

• I can shake hands with you, David, now that youre in 13 civies.

  Out of the Air

  Inez Haynes Irwin

• The next day we dressed up for the attempt by putting on our "civies" first and then drawing our prisoner's uniform over them.

  World's War Events, Vol. II

  Various

• But in civies, even a frock coat, I've an idea she wouldn't recognize me as a noble hero.

  Torchy As A Pa

  Sewell Ford

• Next morning the Babe dug up an old suit of 1914 "civies" and put them on.

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 24, 1917

  Various

• A good many right arms to-day, back in “civies,” have a stuttering fit whenever they approach a uniform.

  'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' AND 'Isn't That Just Like a Man!'

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb