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verb

Undress v. t.

To divest of clothes; to strip.

To divest of ornaments to disrobe.

(Med.) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.

noun

Undress n.

A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.

(Mil. & Naval) An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.

Undress parade (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Undress" Quotes from Famous Books

... her own dishes for eating out of and may use no other; at Kaltag she must suck the water through a swan's bone without applying her lips to the cup. She may eat no fresh meat or fish except the flesh of the porcupine. She may not undress, but sleeps with all her clothes on, even her mittens. In her socks she wears, next to the skin, the horny soles cut from the feet of a porcupine, in order that for the rest of her life her shoes may never wear out. Round her waist she wears a cord to which are tied the heads of femurs of ...

— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer

... the weather grew warmer. White clothes appeared on deck. Captain O'Leary appeared in an undress uniform that caused a flutter in feminine hearts. The night of the day of her encounter with her hero was stuffy and ...

— The Cricket • Marjorie Cooke

... and had been boisterously welcomed by her brother one white-hot morning, Houssas in undress uniform lining the beach and gazing solemnly upon Militini's riotous joy. Mr. Commissioner Sanders, C.M.G., had given her a more formal welcome, for he was a little scared of women. Bones, as we know, had not been present—which was unfortunate in ...

— The Keepers of the King's Peace • Edgar Wallace

... holding such a commission, may under his hand authorize an officer in command of a detached portion to hold courts-martial. Formerly all officers composing the court, attendants, witnesses, &c., were compelled to appear in their full-dress uniforms; but by recent orders, the undress uniform, with cocked hat and ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... from their father, knelt by his chair, and uttered their evening prayers aloud, after which he blessed and dismissed them—the boy to a shake-down in his own room, the girl to the ecstasy of assisting the guest to undress, and admiring the wonders of the very simple toilette apparatus contained in her ...

— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge

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