Meanings of underdress in English

Rising, she fought her way into her stained underdress and the gown.

Bodice and underdress of sky-blue velveteen, trimmed with bouffants and noeuds of bell-pulls.

A Brennanism: When in doubt as to where the day will take you, underdress.

His hands pressed against her back, covered only by the underdress and the shift.

There was a soft wool underdress of creamiest tint.

He could see her standing by the door in her white underdress, peering through the window.

Dirt covered her ugly brown skirts, and her underdress bore a rip the length of her arm.

Tali went white as her underdress.

These fellows tend to underdress.

From her shoulders fell a long full robe of purple byssus, over an underdress of white which readied the knee.

He said, "Shall I help you take off the rest?" His fingers tugged lightly on the underdress, gathering it up.

Eleanor was kneeling on the window-seat where she sometimes slept, her bright braids falling over her white linen underdress and gown of soft blue wool.

Tali sat on the edge of her bed dressed in her Healer's apprentice uniform, her white underdress neatly pressed and her short green vest buttoned.

Remember this: it is always better to be underdressed than to be overdressed.

Rose over-drank, underdressed, wandered off, and died of exposure.

Don't feel you need to compensate for five months of underdressing by suddenly jumping back into formal attire.