regimentals
Britishplural noun
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the uniform and insignia of a regiment
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military dress
Example Sentences
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Private James Stanley and others stripped off their regimentals and jumped into Long Island Sound from the Fort coal dock.
From Time Magazine Archive
They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr. Bingley’s large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
He lifted his glass to him, and last to Norton's grandfather in his blue and yellow colonial regimentals.
From The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South by Dixon, Thomas
Sellis took out the duke's regimentals some time since, and put them by again, but left out the sword upon a sofa for two or three days.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne
Dr. James Thacher, in his military journal, states, that André was executed “in his royal regimentals, and buried in the same.”
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
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