regimentally-clothed

Updated: May 10, 2025

The Englishman, where a few awkward squads from the last conscription were doing the goose-step some members of those squads still as to their bodies, in the chrysalis peasant-state of Blouse, and only military butterflies as to their regimentally-clothed legs from the Great Place, away outside the fortifications, and away for miles along the dusty roads, soldiers swarmed.

Charles Dickens - Somebody's Luggage