smallclothes

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Knee-length breeches, worn especially in the 18th century.

   • Even fashions, otherwise convenient, as the trousers that have so long taken place of smallclothes, often perhaps owe their continuance to some general defect . . .
   • 'Only look at his jacket, mother!' cried Annie; 'and a shillingsworth gone from his small-clothes!'
2. 2

   Underwear and other small items of clothing.

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

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