war dress

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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clothing worn by Indians when at war.

Quotations

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. . . .