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symmetricals

symmetricals noun: padding worn by actors and other performers to expand their body shape.

Noun

symmetricals pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) Padding worn by actors and other performers to expand their body shape.
    • […] what were known as "symmetricals," lumps of batting strategically placed, distorting the girls' natural curves to the masculine truck-horse taste of the times.1942, Douglas Gilbert, Lost Chords: The Diverting Story of American Popular Songs, page 45
    • The symmetricals he refers to were a false rubber “skin” that gave men a female torso or shape.2004, Anne Alison Barnet, Extravaganza King: Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theatre

Questions about symmetricals

What does symmetricals mean?
Symmetricals means padding worn by actors and other performers to expand their body shape.
What part of speech is symmetricals?
Symmetricals is a noun.

Words near symmetricals in the dictionary

  1. symmetrical OCD
  2. symmetricalities
  3. symmetricality
  4. symmetrically
  5. symmetricalness
  6. symmetricals
  7. symmetrician
  8. symmetricians
  9. symmetricities
  10. symmetricity
  11. symmetricized

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