full fig

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Glossy magazines are stuffed with hunts in full cry, yachts in full sail, garden parties in full fig.

From Time Magazine Archive

This curious toilette completed, he wrapped a clean mat round him, and presented himself in full fig, to bid us all due welcome.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

Winter—we declare—and in full fig with his powdered wig!

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

Yes, it was Euphrosyne in full fig and in very active circulation.

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake

I ought to have been in full fig.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville