Body-garment

  • 61Hood — Hood, n. [OE. hood, hod, AS. h[=o]d; akin to D. hoed hat, G. hut, OHG. huot, also to E. hat, and prob. to E. heed. [root]13.] 1. State; condition. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being …

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  • 62waistcoat — /ˈweɪstkoʊt / (say waystkoht) noun 1. a close fitting, sleeveless garment for men which reaches to the waist and buttons down the front, and is designed to be worn under a jacket. 2. a similar garment sometimes worn by women. 3. a body garment… …

  • 63Cutty-sark (witch) — Cutty sark is 18th century Scots for short chemise or short undergarment .[1] Hyphenated, Cutty sark was a nickname given to the witch Nannie Dee, a fictional character created by Robert Burns in his Tam o Shanter, after the garment she wore. The …

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  • 64waistcoat — waistcoated, adj. /wes keuht, wayst koht /, n. 1. Chiefly Brit. vest (def. 1). 2. an 18th century garment for women that is similar to a man s vest, usually worn with a riding habit. 3. a man s body garment, often quilted and embroidered and… …

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  • 65waistcoat — waist•coat [[t]ˈwɛs kət, ˈweɪstˌkoʊt[/t]] n. 1) brit. clo Chiefly Brit. vest 1) 2) clo an 18th century garment for women that is similar to a man s vest, usu. worn with a riding habit 3) clo a man s body garment, often quilted and embroidered and …

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  • 66shirt — n. 1 a man s upper body garment of cotton etc., having a collar, sleeves, and esp. buttons down the front, and often worn under a jacket or sweater. 2 a similar garment worn by a woman; a blouse. 3 = NIGHTSHIRT. Phrases and idioms: keep one s… …

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  • 67Iyer — Infobox Ethnic group group = Iyer அய்யர் poptime = 1901:415,931 2004: 2,400,000 (Estimated) [Accurate statistics on the population of Iyers are unavailable. This is due to the fact that the practice of conducting caste based population census… …

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  • 68Incorporation (linguistics) — Incorporation is a phenomenon by which a word, usually a verb, forms a kind of compound with, for instance, its direct object (object incorporation) or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function. Incorporation is central… …

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  • 69Vest (disambiguation) — Vest may refer to: *Vest, sleeveless upper body garment of several varieties. *Vesting, a legal concept. *VEST, a cryptographic primitive.urname*George Graham Vest , a U.S. politician. *Jason Vest, a U.S. investigative journalist. *Charles… …

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  • 70Sierra Leone — Sierra Leonean /lee oh nee euhn/. /lee oh nee, lee ohn / an independent republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 4,891,546; 27,925 sq. mi. (72,326 sq. km). Cap.: Freetown. * * *… …

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