FATIGUES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fatigues mean? 

• FATIGUES (noun)
  The noun FATIGUES has 1 sense:

1. military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor

  Familiarity information: FATIGUES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FATIGUES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("fatigues" is a kind of...):

military uniform (prescribed identifying uniform for soldiers)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

Grant would enjoy it on Sunday after the fatigues of the day, will not keep beyond to-morrow.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This morning I slept late after the fatigues of yesterday, and though Jonathan was late too, he was the earlier.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My father still desired to delay our departure, fearful that I could not sustain the fatigues of a journey, for I was a shattered wreck—the shadow of a human being.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Meanwhile we can thank our lucky fate which has rescued us for a few short hours from the insufferable fatigues of idleness.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I hope I am able to do something to relieve him from the fatigues of business, Master Copperfield!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Elinor answered in some distress that she was, and then talked of head-aches, low spirits, and over fatigues; and of every thing to which she could decently attribute her sister's behaviour.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

An archer had brought him a change of clothes from the cog, and he had already, with the elasticity of youth, shaken off the troubles and fatigues of the morning.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You appear to me a little hoarse already, and when you consider what demand of voice and what fatigues to-morrow will bring, I think it would be no more than common prudence to stay at home and take care of yourself to-night.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The happiness with which their time now passed, every employment voluntary, every laugh indulged, every meal a scene of ease and good humour, walking where they liked and when they liked, their hours, pleasures, and fatigues at their own command, made her thoroughly sensible of the restraint which the general's presence had imposed, and most thankfully feel their present release from it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We produced liverwort plants with mosaic pigment patterns – resembling military camouflage fatigues – that allowed us to compare pathogen resistance in pigmented and non-pigmented areas of the same plant and found the pigment provided some resistance to pathogen infection.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)