fatigues

[ fuh-teegz ]

plural noun

1. a military uniform worn while performing manual labor or while in the field.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fatigues¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

One of the dead was wearing combat fatigues and the other was in civilian clothes.

From The Daily Beast

She hurried in the direction from which the soldier was fleeing and spied a man in combat fatigues.

From The Daily Beast

The soldiers sleep on the floor in their full fatigues, boots laced up.

From The Daily Beast

A Chinese man in military fatigues bursts into room after room along a narrow corridor.

From The Daily Beast

Outside the courtroom, armed officers dressed in green fatigues and carrying binoculars scanned the immense parking lot.

From The Daily Beast

When the crusading mania was at its height there were some Christian women who shared the fatigues and dangers of their husbands.

From Project Gutenberg

To this dangerous sleep David yielded, nevertheless, as the emotions and fatigues of the day had been very exhausting.

From Project Gutenberg

The road is long across the desert, and you seem too feeble to sustain the fatigues of such a journey.

From Project Gutenberg

He fatigues himself too much, but I can't help seeing he is obliged to do it.

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Through incredible perils and fatigues, footsore and emaciated, you arrive at last in the States called Free.

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