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small-clothes
Also smallclothes.
[small a. 3.]
1. Breeches; knee-breeches. (Cf. small n. 9 a.)
1796J. Hunter Trav. 297 The immensity of their breeches, (for, in spite of the fashionable phrase, it would certainly be a perversion of terms to call them small-clothes). 1812W. Combe Syntax, Picturesque xx, One who was in full fashion drest,..His small-clothes sat so close and tight. 1841Thackeray Gt. Hoggarty Diam. iii, Two great footmen, with red whiskers and yellow plush smallclothes. 1883J. Hawthorne Dust I. 84 He leaned back in his chair, with one hand in the pocket of his small-clothes.
2. transf. One who wears breeches.
1825Coleridge Lett., Convers., etc. II. 210 An audience of respectable smallclothes and petticoats. |