dress blues

1. 1.

   a dress uniform for formal occasions

   Synonymsdress whites

   Broaderdress uniform

   plural

Questions about dress blues

What does dress blues mean?

dress blues means "a dress uniform for formal occasions".

What is another word for dress blues?

Close synonyms include dress whites. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dress blues a common word?

dress blues is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.