plain service

The lieutenant opened the door of the plain service vehicle.

He was obviously the colonel, though he wore a plain service cap and an enlisted man's uniform.

Today's Mass was a starkly plain service, with tiny red candles lined up on bleachers behind the altar serving as a religious decor.

Though he was dressed in plain service clothes and had his head averted, she knew a shock of recognition that couldn't be denied He glanced back as she swept by him, confirming her intuition.

His trademarks were a battered Army campaign hat, GI shoes, and a plain service uniform with no insignia of rank; he frequently carried a .30 Springfield rifle in preference to a sidearm.

The plain service, the vernacular Bible, the hymn-tunes mostly on an English pattern - 'God save the Queen,' I was informed, a special favourite, - all, save some paper flowers upon the altar, seemed not merely but austerely Protestant.