brit., austral. |
a civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform (uncountable, Australia, Britain, New Zealand) Synonym: civvies: He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin. • The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser. wiktionary.org) |