Definitions
civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform
Word origin
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).
Used in a sentence
“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 innate reluctance of the Englishman to make himself conspicuous has stood him here in good stead. Except on special occasions, the British officers are almost always in mufti.”
“The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Civilian clothes”5 letters
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