uniform case

English

Noun

uniform case (plural uniform cases)

1. A metal case used to store and transport a military uniform.
   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 13”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

     He dragged his tin uniform case from under the bed and took out five ten-rupee notes.

   • 1940, Roger Martin du Gard, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Summer, 1914, London: John Lane the Bodley Head, Part II, Chapter 45, p. 624:

     In the hall lay an officer's uniform-case, brand new, the price ticket still attached.