Definition of "dress uniform" []

• A military uniform worn on formal occasions (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "More than sixteen years separated the young Health Inspector, anxiously approaching the fateful exam - ination, from the medical officer in the blue dress uniform sitting in judgement on a new generation of nervous candidates, but Reed could still remember his alarm and depression."
• "The captain, Hans Rose, came ashore in his dress uniform to pay his respects to the American admiral commanding a destroyer flotilla based in Newport."
• "While Gordon packed his dress uniform at Cairo, confident that Baring would arrange for Zubair to join him, a humanitarian revolt against the Liberal government stirred in London.53"