battledress


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battledress

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battle dress

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(Military) the ordinary uniform of a soldier, consisting of tunic and trousers
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The scene is a buzz of well-drilled activity, with helmeted military personnel in battledress all around, radios crackling, orders being given, understood and put into action.
And, inset, an unknown actress in battledress, her armour enhanced by tinsel, one of a group of three estimated at PS80-PS120.
I had a long cigarette case in the Inside pocket of my battledress and a towel wrapped around my waist.
Those in the forces tailored their shows to wartime audiences, Mr Punch donning battledress and gas mask, Judy wearing a NAAFI cap - and Hitler replacing hangman Jack Ketch.
It was in fact Lord Mostyn who appears in the book as Richard ap Howel of Mostyn and wearing the same battledress and carrying the same sword!
I was in thick battledress so I stood less chance of getting to shield her injured.
Trumpsaluted as military personnel -- some in World War One battledress -- filed past with the Arc de Triomphe in the background.
Duterte's common-law wife Honeylet Avancena posted Tuesday night on her Facebook account her photo with the President in full battledress.
And classic texts, on the whole, were not imaginatively re-interpreted, as for example Bernard Miles did at the Mermaid in the 1960s with his battledress Henry V, (58) or more recently Stephen Daldry with his re-discovery of Priestley's An Inspector Calls.
The clip reportedly shows the jihadist fighters, wearing full battledress, marching the streets of Mosul, declaring the allied forces will be defeated in Iraq.
The attackers, reportedly wearing Indian Army battledress, were suspected to belong to Jaish-e-Muhammad, a militant group designated as a terrorist organisation by India, the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Nations.