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dress parade

noun

  1. military a formal parade of sufficient ceremonial importance for the wearing of dress uniform
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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At that point, costume becomes one of the last indulgences they turn to, gathering found scraps from the wreckage, leaves, feathers and other natural objects into a homecoming-style fancy dress parade.

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A salute of twenty-four guns was fired on receipt of good news from Washington, and a dress parade took place at headquarters.

In January Moscow invited Haftar for a full dress parade aboard its aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, en route back from Syria, while Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft has announced plans for major new investments in Libya.

They ignore it because they want all that firepower close at hand when that battlefield arrives; their irrationality on dress parade here.

"When I showed up at The Citadel and got on the campus and saw the uniforms and the knobs double-timing, and the dress parade they had on Friday, I was so impressed," the 21-year-old said.

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