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shooting suit

shooting suit noun: a specialised suit (shooting jacket, vest, and trousers), typically made of flannel or tweed, and designed to be used by hunters in the field.

Noun

shooting suit (plural shooting suits)

  1. A specialised suit (shooting jacket, vest, and trousers), typically made of flannel or tweed, and designed to be used by hunters in the field.
    • Just then Job came up, looking very stout and English in his shooting-suit of brown flannel, and with a sort of perplexed appearance upon his honest round face that had been very common with him since he got into these strange waters.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of shooting suit

pluralshooting suits

Questions about shooting suit

What does shooting suit mean?
Shooting suit means a specialised suit (shooting jacket, vest, and trousers), typically made of flannel or tweed, and designed to be used by hunters in the field.
What part of speech is shooting suit?
Shooting suit is a noun.
What is the plural of shooting suit?
The plural of shooting suit is shooting suits.

Words near shooting suit in the dictionary

  1. shooting sprees
  2. shooting star
  3. shooting stars
  4. shooting stick
  5. shooting sticks
  6. shooting suit
  7. shooting suits
  8. shooting the boots
  9. shooting the breeze
  10. shooting the bull
  11. shooting the cat

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