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Definition of Dress ship
1. Verb. Decorate a ship with flags.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dress Ship
Literary usage of Dress ship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"1884); Haweis, The Art '>í Dren (London, 1881). dress ship. A nautical term for
ornamenting a ship with Hags. It is usually done on national holidays, ..."
2. Letters of Captain Geo. Hamilton Perkins, U.S.N. by George Hamilton Perkins, George Eugene Belknap (1908)
"His arrival was announced by a gun from the Peak, in time for most of the shipping
in the harbor to dress ship, and it made a pretty sight. ..."
3. The United Service (1904)
"Consequently, early in the morning of May 24 the Franklin was prepared to dress
ship in honor of Queen Victoria's birthday, and at daybreak the ..."
4. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"to dress ship over dress ship; à l'anglaise, («аи.) to dress ship fore and the
yardarms. paye, г., pay: paymaster; wage; à la basse , ordinary pay; ..."
5. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp, Brooke Heckstall-Smith (1900)
"To dress ship is to hoist flags from deck to truck ; or from bowsprit end to
truck and taffrail. Sometimes referred to as dressed " rainbow fashion. ..."
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