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try on

verb

Definitions

  1. To test the look or fit of (a garment) by wearing it.

    • Who is this fellow, Corinna? Some journeyman taylor, I suppose, who chuses to try on the gentleman’s cloaths before he carries them home—
    • […] Amy tried on the blue ring with a delighted face and a firm resolve to earn it.

  2. To attempt

    To attempt; to undertake.

    • He could have feigned noncomprehension, but with Lanyon one didn’t try anything on.

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