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

He was on his way to a party, and so was dressed in full fig, a thing he hated very much, but had to put up with on such occasions.

From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by Finnemore, John

That he had captured a Doctor of Divinity going to a Christmas, a bridegroom starting for the honeymoon, a colonel of hussars in full fig for her Majesty's drawing-room.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

She would not move, and thereupon he, in a fever of gallantry, jumped overboard up to the waist in full fig; and one of the men following his example, we were soon afloat.

From Great Sea Stories by French, Joseph Lewis

Harkaway and Girdwood presented the appearance of Ottoman civilians belonging to the "Young Turkey" party, whilst the venerable tutor stalked along in full fig as a magnificent robed and turbaned Turk of the old school.

From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Hemyng, Bracebridge