WordNet
n. ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc. [syn: civilian clothing, civilian garb, plain clothes]
Usage examples of "civilian dress".
All of this is done in civilian dress as our presence in Vietnam is hush-hush.
Still, on the short notice given her, Rhoda accomplished everything: stored the furniture, closed the house and put it up for rent, paid the bills, packed her clothes and Pug's heavy double wardrobe of civilian dress and uniforms, and moved Madeline to the home of her sister.
The second was a burly man in civilian dress whose porcine eyes had that nervous look of superficial intelligence thinned by materialistic insensitivity one sees in politicians, film producers, and automobile salesmen.
Not so busy that several passersby in civilian dress didn't to a slight check and double-take at her Intelligence flashes.
Among them was a short plump man in the knee-breeches and long coat and lace sabot that were civilian dress in East Residence.
After another week the girl disappeared back into the mob, but Cordelia returned to her cabin one day to discover her roommate gone and replaced by another, a steady-eyed, easygoing older woman in civilian dress who was not one of the ex-prisoners.
Over half of his companions were in civilian dress, including the two women who wore the ankle-length skirts and long, tabardlike vests of traditional Grayson fashion.
Hirsch figured that they would rendezvous with the chaplain in civilian dress, he would issue them displaced persons papers, and they would disappear into the American camp.
Many were in uniform, some in civilian dress, a few as naked as the executioner himself.
She'd felt odd about that, too, for Manticoran dress codes proscribed decorations for civilian dress, but she wasn't a civilian on Grayson, whatever she might wear.