marching order

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   equipage for marching

   “the company was dressed in full marching order”

   Broadermateriel

Questions about marching order

What does marching order mean?

marching order means "equipage for marching".

Is marching order a common word?

marching order 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.