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skeleton suits

skeleton suits is the plural of skeleton suit.

Meaning of skeleton suit

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

Questions about skeleton suits

What is skeleton suits the plural of?
Skeleton suits is the plural of skeleton suit.

Words near skeleton suits in the dictionary

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

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