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SUIT OF CLOTHES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
Example:
they buried him in his best suit
Synonyms:
suit; suit of clothes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("suit of clothes" is a kind of...):
garment (an article of clothing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suit of clothes"):
business suit (a suit of clothes traditionally worn by businessmen)
double-breasted suit (a suit with a double-breasted jacket)
pinstripe (a suit made from a fabric with very thin stripes)
single-breasted suit (a suit having a single-breasted jacket)
slack suit (casual dress consisting of slacks and matching jacket)
zoot suit (a flashy suit of extreme cut)
Context examples:
The captain persuaded me to accept a suit of clothes newly made; but I would not suffer the tailor to take my measure; however, Don Pedro being almost of my size, they fitted me well enough.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And from such largess, dispensed from his future, Martin turned and took his one good suit of clothes to the pawnshop.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was likewise ordered, that three hundred tailors should make me a suit of clothes, after the fashion of the country; that six of his majesty’s greatest scholars should be employed to instruct me in their language; and lastly, that the emperor’s horses, and those of the nobility and troops of guards, should be frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He told her that he would come, after all; that he would go over to San Francisco, to the Transcontinental office, collect the five dollars due him, and with it redeem his suit of clothes.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They forced me into the long-boat, letting me put on my best suit of clothes, which were as good as new, and take a small bundle of linen, but no arms, except my hanger; and they were so civil as not to search my pockets, into which I conveyed what money I had, with some other little necessaries.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A pauper himself, a slave to the money-lender, he knew himself the superior of those he met at the Morses'; and, when his one decent suit of clothes was out of pawn, he moved among them a lord of life, quivering with a sense of outrage akin to what a prince would suffer if condemned to live with goat-herds.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
