dress uniform

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   a military uniform worn on formal occasions

   Broadermilitary uniform

   Narrowerdress blues

   military

Questions about dress uniform

What does dress uniform mean?

dress uniform means "a military uniform worn on formal occasions".

Is dress uniform a common word?

dress uniform 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.