Clothing worn in private or civil life, especially by those otherwise in uniform.
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We should at least ask the civvies if they want to leave.
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Dom wasn't sure that civvies under pressure could actually make that decision.
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He thought of the civvies expecting military protection and not getting it.
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So far, none of those things have attacked our people or civvies.
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Makes it harder to get civvies to listen to you next time.
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Even though I am in civies, everybody in the department knows who I am by now.
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Then they felt foolish for saluting in "civies."
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Next morning the Babe dug up an old suit of 1914 "civies" and put them on.
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We're dealing with the military people and with the town's people, and were dealing with the two romantic leads of the civies.
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I heard some of our soldiers saying in wonder to each other, "did you see those civies going along the road just now?"
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Military officers were present at all events, in uniform or civilian clothes.
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A Reuters witness saw men in civilian clothes firing into the air.
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He was reported to have been wearing civilian clothes at the time.
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The civilian clothes that he wore caused an itching of the skin.
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They wear civilian clothes, and are treated with consideration and well fed.
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Three of them were in plain clothes; the other was a soldier.
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The other gentleman in plain clothes was the chaplain of the ship.
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Meantime the young person in the plain clothes was saying to Joan:
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We had men in plain clothes watching the house night and day.
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Mr. Fowler was in plain clothes, and the blinds were half drawn.
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In the evening we visited that same place, accompanied by an officer in private clothes.
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"Ignacio was dressed in private clothes," he added, "and therefore he did not come as the official messenger of the dread tribunal.
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He said the new mufti had no political or sectarian religious affiliations.
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The uniform of the military came before the mufti of the civilian.
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Types of men in the Guides' Cavalry, both in uniform and mufti
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One day, while the narrator was fishing, Santos-Ott suddenly appeared in mufti.
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In mufti he is about as exciting as the drizzle-damp Woking afternoon.
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She drifted away, and the man in mufti sat down again.
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Bradbury, in a mufti suit of gray, stepped into the office.
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If so, our friend in mufti was prepared to give it.
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Otherwise he carried himself like a British cavalry officer in mufti.
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A little earlier, deputy mufti Valiulla Yakupov was shot dead outside his home.
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Benefactor's brother now presidente, but everywhere pictures of Benefactor in mufti.
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He, like Joe, wore mufti and now extended his hand to be shaken.
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The mufti's main job is to issue Islamic legal opinions.
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One of the operatives saw a friend in mufti coming out of a saloon.
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Staff officers in mufti have been round all the frontiers.
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A young man, very obviously a soldier in mufti, was hovering in the background.
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