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Civilian garb   /səvˈɪljən gɑrb/   Listen
Civilian garb

noun
1.
Ordinary clothing as distinguished from uniforms, work clothes, clerical garb, etc..  Synonyms: civilian clothing, civilian dress, plain clothes.






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"Civilian garb" Quotes from Famous Books



... chewing gum, began to prepare coffee. The other sat down, whistling tunelessly. He was young and powerfully built, but his right arm ended in a prosthetic claw. All of them were dressed in inconspicuous civilian garb. ...
— Security • Poul William Anderson

... artful, indeed, and armed with that roll, I might have snapped my fingers at the jailers. In one hour, with that little file, I could have sawn through the thickest bar, and with the gold coin I could have exchanged my soldier's cloak for civilian garb at the nearest shop. You may fancy that a man who has often taken the eaglets out of their nests in our cliff would have found no difficulty in getting down to the street out of a window less than thirty feet above it. But I ...
— Carmen • Prosper Merimee

... spotless in their new uniforms. Some wore Glengarry bonnets, kilts, and sporrans, some the black ribbons of Wales; one, whose hat-badge proclaimed the Dublin Fusilier, was conspicuous by the eyeglass he wore, and others were still arrayed in civilian garb, the uniform of city and office life. Several units of my battalion were taken off to drill in company with the strange officers. I was one of ...
— The Amateur Army • Patrick MacGill



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