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In full uniform

Uniform \U"ni*form\, n. [F. uniforme. See Uniform, a.] A dress of a particular style or fashion worn by persons in the same service or order by means of which they have a distinctive appearance; as, the uniform of the artillery, of the police, of the Freemasons, etc.

There are many things which, a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform.
--F. W. Robertson.

In full uniform (Mil.), wearing the whole of the prescribed uniform, with ornaments, badges of rank, sash, side arms, etc.

Uniform sword, an officer's sword of the regulation pattern prescribed for the army or navy.

Usage examples of "in full uniform".

Under the circumstances, he refused to greet her in full uniform like some neorabbit scurrying to present the best possible appearance to a hunter.

The insufferably arrogant patient who had given her all the trouble earlier, and who should by now be mildly sedated, dressed in a bathrobe, and either asleep in his bed or listening to the radio in the dayroom of Ward Five-B, was instead marching purposefully down the sidewalk six blocks from the hospital compound in full uniform.

Peabody, looking considerably more official in full uniform with her hair straight under her cap, climbed out.

And then the eighty-five were led out in double file, all in full uniform, but for one thing - they were in their bare feet.

The president of the Beveriy Hills branch of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was there in full uniform.

Captain Putnam was there in full uniform, and with him over a score of cadets.

The young men were all in full uniform, smart as polish, only their bright hair tousled, and faces flushed by liquor.