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maxi-|ˈmæksɪ|
combining form of maximum 5 denoting things, esp. articles of clothing, which are very long or large of their kind. Also as n. Cf. midi-, mini-.
1961Spectator 30 June 965 If you get into a maxi-taxi after midnight with a companion, there is 3/3d on the clock before you start. 1966Times Educ. Suppl. 24 June 2015/2 There will be Lady X in Rutland realizing with a gasp of horror that she is wearing the same maxi-skirt as Lady Y. 1966Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 11/1 The maxi-bag must be the next thing. And by the natural sequence of bag fashion psychology, the manufacturers are now designing bags on briefcase lines. 1967Punch 3 May 624/1 The clampdown in Greece..may shut up those tireless critics, in our own land of the free, of mini-skirt girls and maxi-hair boys, now banned by the Greek Minister of the Interior. 1967Evening Standard 7 Dec. 9/1 You're in a black crêpe maxi-skirt... If everyone is wearing maxi's, you're all right. 1968Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 15/3, I doubt if we'll see the Queen in a real maxi yet awhile, but the belted emerald maxi coat sketched was certainly the Royal dressmaker's newest looking garment in the collection he showed yesterday. 1968Guardian 2 May 7/4 Here are expensive clothes from 30 to 70 guineas. They are not for youngsters who wear maxis for kicks. 1970R. Lowell Notebk. 167 The girl's maxi-coat, Tsar officer's, dragged the snow. 1970Time 16 Nov. 67 To relieve the sterile monotony of nurses' uniforms, Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin recently unveiled three new creations at a London showing. Two of his designs—nunlike wimples with white maxidresses—were harmless affairs that might make ward nurses look functional if not fashionable. 1971‘V. X. Scott’ Surrogate Wife 230 He was wearing a great big olive green maxicoat. 1971Ink 12 June 1/2 ‘Have a whiff’ was released by Pye on a maxi-single (two tracks on each side). 1973S. B. Jackman Guns covered with Flowers vi. 98 Marija slipped off her tweed maxi-coat. 1975Daily Tel. 4 Jan. 16 This figure is quite impressive until it is compared with the 1974–75 budget of {pstlg}1,325 million, which means that it is only a 1½ per cent. mini-reduction in what promises to be a maxi-budget.
Add:b. In full maxi boat, maxi yacht, etc. A racing yacht of between approximately 15 and 20 metres in length; the class of such yachts, currently the largest permitted under International Offshore Rule. Usu. attrib. orig. and chiefly Austral. and N.Z.
1974Australian 26 Dec. 6/9 The new Ondine may do to the ‘maxi’ end of international ocean racing fleets what Dr Jerome Milgram did to the smaller boats with his controversial Cascade. 1975Austral. Seacraft Feb. 28 Maxi boats are anything over 15 m (50 ft) overall. 1977National Times (Austral.) 17 Jan. 36/6 Rose recently crewed aboard Jack Rooklyn's California Cup and Sydney–Hobart maxi-racer Ballyhoo. 1979J. Sturrock Classic Racing Yachts Austral. Waters 144 A special race for visiting maxis over a 40 nautical mile course from Sydney. 1986Auckland Star 7 Feb. a1/1 Yesterday's..maxi racing..was madness. Ibid. 1/3 The maxis had lots of attendant spectator boats. Ibid., His warning follows yesterday's..maxi-race in which all six..yachts had near-misses. 1987Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Nov. 13/1 With only a moderate fleet due to contest this year's AWA Sydney–Hobart Yacht race, the maxis again look set to attract the most interest. 1990Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 4 Aug. 39/1 Of the many things for which President Gorbachev has been responsible during his tempestuous five years in power, one of the least likely is the building of an 82-foot aluminium maxi yacht. |