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plus-foured, a.|plʌsˈfɔəd| [f. next + -ed2.] Wearing or clad in plus fours.
1925N. & Q. 28 Nov. 387/2 In Truth of Oct. 14 a writer ventured ‘plus-foured’. 1926Daily Chron. 13 May 2/2 ‘I'll be sorry to leave the old bus tonight,’ said the plus foured pull-overed youth at the wheel of the ‘General’ yesterday afternoon. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iv. 242 A begoggled, leather-coated and plus-foured figure. 1967O. Lancaster Eye to Future iii. 64 The hearties, grey flannel-trousered or elaborately plus-foured. 1978Daily Tel. 21 Jan. 9/1 On Saturday morning he stands tweedily plus-foured beside a gate, serving as honorary secretary of the beagles. |