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war dress
Hist.
clothing worn by Indians when at war.
1809
 
The chief was mounted on a milk-white horse and dressed in his war dress and haranguing the Shawyens as he was coming along.
1922
 
. . . the Blackfoot appeared before him in full war dress. . . .