Smallclothes
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Smallclothes is a noun meaning Knee-length breeches, worn especially in the 18th century.
Meaning
Knee-length breeches, worn especially in the 18th century.
More Meanings
- (British, archaic) Underwear and other small items of clothing.
Example Sentences
One hand slid up her thigh and underneath her smallclothes.
'Only look at his jacket, mother!' cried Annie; 'and a shillingsworth gone from his small-clothes!'
Even fashions, otherwise convenient, as the trousers that have so long taken place of smallclothes, often perhaps owe their continuance to some general defect . . .
Are red socks a secret handshake, a mark of Etonhood, of an allegiance to the place both claimed and disclaimed? And having seen one pair I'm noticing them all over the place, a conspiracy of smallclothes.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include breeches, knee-breeches, shortclothes, hose, knickerbockers, underbreeches.
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