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CIVILIAN DRESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does civilian dress mean?
• CIVILIAN DRESS (noun)
The noun CIVILIAN DRESS has 1 sense:
1. ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc.
Familiarity information: CIVILIAN DRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
civilian clothing; civilian dress; civilian garb; plain clothes
Hypernyms ("civilian dress" is a kind of...):
article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "civilian dress"):
civies; civvies (civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform)
mufti (civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform)
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