full fig

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Glossy magazines are stuffed with hunts in full cry, yachts in full sail, garden parties in full fig.

From Time Magazine Archive

This curious toilette completed, he wrapped a clean mat round him, and presented himself in full fig, to bid us all due welcome.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

They be gone right enough—Adm'ral Buzza in full fig, and a row o' darters in jallishy buff.

From The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Presently before us appeared a gorgeous officer, in full fig.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various

Madame Beattie, when in full fig, as she had first seen her, looked to her like pictures of ancient hearses with plumes.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice