Only a week before, they had passed through the same country-side crying "Nach Paris!" and polishing up buttons, belts, rifles, accoutrements generally, so as to enter the French capital in grande tenue.

La petite tenue.

in full dress &c (fashion) 852; dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue

Prose orderAl tenue soplo de la brisa nocturna.