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