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n. a military uniform designed for field service
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A Warrant Officer and Non-commissioned officers of the Bermuda Militia Artillery wear Battledress at the Examination Battery, St. David's, Bermuda, c. 1944.
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Battledress was the specific title of a military uniform adopted by the British Army in the late 1930s and worn until the 1960s. Several other nations also introduced variants of Battle Dress during the Second World War, including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States of America (the E.T.O. uniform) and after the Second World War, including Argentina, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, and Greece.
Battledress (BD), or later No. 5 Uniform, was the combat uniform worn by British Commonwealth and Imperial forces and many Free European Forces through the Second World War. It was worn mostly but not exclusively in temperate climates. In some armies it continued in use into the 1970s. During the Second World War and thereafter this uniform was also used for formal parades (including mounting the Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace) until the re-introduction of separate parade uniforms in the late 1950s.
Usage examples of "battle dress".
Erect of carriage, his Battle Dress Uniform fit as if, contrary to regulation, it was tailored.
In wind-inflated and consequently voluminous battle dress, which repeated caustic degradation has injected with the traces of seven boiler battles.
Two guys in battle dress, both damned near Russell's size, were guarding the door, while a third bouncer in a t-shirt that revealed bulging muscles was sweeping for weapons.
Tattooed courtesans, former Jamaillian slaves, slender boys with painted eyes, women who wore battle dress, and hard-eyed sailors came to his door, stayed closeted within his chambers for a night or three, and then departed on the ships again.
He was sitting at a desk, wearing an ordinary soldier's battle dress uniform.