Formal style of costume, generally heavily regulated, acceptable for wear at specific events at a royal court.
Formal dress for presentation at certain courtly functions in the United Kingdom.
1They do not travel in full dress court uniform as this man did.
2An agitated man in court uniform came to his side.
3You must have seen him: the fellow is in the full dress court uniform of the Panderobajensky Hussars.
4Only officers who are eloping with grand duchesses wear court uniform: otherwise the grand duchesses could not be seen with them.
5In my neighbourhood, for instance, stood a stout gentleman in court uniform, who wept aloud whenever the organ permitted his grief to be audible.
6Mrs. Madison also was present with Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, and the members of the Diplomatic Corps wore their court uniforms.
7Gentlemen in brilliant court uniforms, princes and princesses he saw daily in the court-yards, on the stairs, and in the park of the palace.
Translations for court uniform