Smallclothes

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Knee-length breeches, worn especially in the 18th century. plural, plural-only

    "Even fashions, otherwise convenient, as the trousers that have so long taken place of smallclothes, often perhaps owe their continuance to some general defect . . ."

  2. 2
    Underwear and other small items of clothing. British, archaic, plural, plural-only

    "One hand slid up her thigh and underneath her smallclothes."

Synonyms

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dungareeslinenpantsskivviesundergarmentsunderwear

Example

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"Even fashions, otherwise convenient, as the trousers that have so long taken place of smallclothes, often perhaps owe their continuance to some general defect . . ."

Etymology

From small + clothes.

Related phrases

knee length

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