plain suit

noun

, Cards.

1. a suit other than the trump suit.

Example Sentences

But at length a grave-looking member, in a plain suit of gray, and wearing an unpowdered wig, arose.

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Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.

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He recommended a tailor to Edward, who sent for him to the inn, and was measured by him for a plain suit of dark cloth.

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She is a dear little old lady in a close, Quakerish bonnet and plain suit, but wide-awake and full of energy.

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On such occasions he generally discarded his red and blue eagle-feathers, and appeared in a plain suit of citizens' clothes.

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