dress whites
Example Sentences
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On the tarmac, standing at attention and saluting, were sailors in their dress whites and an honor guard in service dress blues and campaign hats.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
There were families, professional types, veterans and one Filipino-American navy officer in full dress whites.
From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2016
Emergency medical workers had found Justin’s body, identified by his dress whites and name tag.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2016
A few weeks before the El Faro headed to sea, she had changed her Facebook profile picture to a photo of her smiling in crisp dress whites.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2015
Bull reflected on whether dress whites that had been tailored for a one-hundred-ninety-pound man would permit the entry of the same man who now weighed two hundred and twenty pounds.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
