full dress vs shirt

full dress

noun
  • Clothing worn on formal occasions. 

adj
  • Requiring a full-scale operation with attention to every minute detail. 

shirt

noun
  • An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms. 

  • An interior lining in a blast furnace. 

  • A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game. 

verb
  • To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt. 

How often have the words full dress and shirt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )