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skeleton suit

skeleton suit noun: an outfit for small boys, popular from about 1790 to the late 1820s, consisting of a tight coat or jacket buttoned to a pair of high-waisted trousers.

Noun

skeleton suit (plural skeleton suits)

  1. (historical) An outfit for small boys, popular from about 1790 to the late 1820s, consisting of a tight coat or jacket buttoned to a pair of high-waisted trousers.
    • Although he could not have been less than eighteen or nineteen years old, and was tall for that age, he wore a skeleton suit, such as is usually put upon very little boys, and which, though most absurdly short in the arms and legs, was quite wide enough for his attenuated frame.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

Forms of skeleton suit

pluralskeleton suits

Questions about skeleton suit

What does skeleton suit mean?
Skeleton suit means an outfit for small boys, popular from about 1790 to the late 1820s, consisting of a tight coat or jacket buttoned to a pair of high-waisted trousers.
What part of speech is skeleton suit?
Skeleton suit is a noun.
What is the plural of skeleton suit?
The plural of skeleton suit is skeleton suits.

Words near skeleton suit in the dictionary

  1. skeleton slider
  2. skeleton sliders
  3. skeleton sliding
  4. skeleton staff
  5. skeleton staffs
  6. skeleton suit
  7. skeleton suits
  8. skeleton tobogganing
  9. skeleton watch
  10. skeleton watches
  11. skeletoned

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