Definition of "full-dress" [full-dress]

• Of, appropriate for, or requiring full dress; formal: a full-dress uniform; a full-dress ceremony. (adjective)
• Complete in every respect: a full-dress debate. (adjective)
• Characterized by exhaustive thoroughness: a full-dress investigation of the scandal. (adjective)

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• "Donald Alston, a large, somewhat florid-faced man in full-dress Air Force uniform."
• "Five years of full-dress dinners, Latin grammar, lacrosse, and daily chapel, lacquered me to a glossy Boston-Episcopalian sheen, so that by the time I arrived at Dartmouth"
• "This is the first full-dress show in Britain for half a century."