Highland dress

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noun

the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers

a modern version of this worn for formal occasions

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And so, he says he left prison without proper ID, just his release papers and the “dress-out gear” he was given by the state.
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Even for Arabic dance no one wears a long dress, just a scarf around the hips.
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Families stuff a life-size male doll with memories of the outgoing year and dress him in their clothing.
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“The dress is just fishnet and crystals and a couple fingers crossed,” Selman told Style.com of the dress.
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The exhibit also includes examples of designers borrowing from fine art, as Yves Saint Laurent did with his Mondrian dress.
The Big Business of Fashion Counterfeits|Lizzie Crocker|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
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That poor, pretty creature, starving, in her charming pink dress and hat of roses.
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Every time he is dressed, or sees his mother dress, he has an object-lesson in symmetrical arrangement.
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She is always attired in black, and is utterly careless in dress, yet nothing can conceal her innate elegance of figure.
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If she is so distingue in rather less than ordinary dress, what would she be in a Parisian costume?
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