undress parade

English

Noun

undress parade (plural undress parades)

(military, archaic) A substitute for dress parade in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “undress parade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)