dress parade

noun

A military parade in full dress uniform.

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Meanings

noun
  1. A military parade in full dress uniform.

    I have merely been a marcher in life’s gaudy dress parade. But you wear the garb of service, you have splendid deeds to do.

    1942, Edgar A. Guest, Poems of Patriotism (poem), Envy
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    The following song was written by Captain Lindley Miller, of the First Arkansas Colored Regiment. Captain Miller says the "boys" sing the song on dress parade with an effect that can hardly be described, and he adds that "while it is not very conservative, it will do to fight with."

    1864, Lindley Miller, Song of the First of Arkansas

    Steady and slow, as soldiers go in some serried dress parade, With flags a-dance in their cool advance came the gallant gray brigade,

    1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Garden of Years and Other Poems (poem), Gettysburg
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