smallclothes
Americanplural noun
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British. small, personal items of clothing, as underwear, handkerchiefs, etc.
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knee breeches, especially the close-fitting ones worn in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.
plural noun
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Origin of smallclothes
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He wore an apple-green coat, white silk stockings, very large silver buckles on his pumps, smallclothes of silver-net tied at the knees with pea-green ribbons, which fell to his ankles, and much expensive lace at his throat and cuffs.
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Blood trickled from the forehead of the man upon the ground; upon his black satin vest and smallclothes, upon his cambric shirt, as he strove to rise.
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Urbain had no strength with which to answer, he remained motionless, his eyes still fixed on the place where the lovely child hid her talisman, while Marguerite, contemplating the fragment of smallclothes, kissed it anew, repeating,— "The worth of that has been well proven, which makes it all the more precious."
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In fact her deep contemplation of the little scrap of Urbain's smallclothes had put the old servant to sleep.
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"Only look at his jacket, mother!" cried Annie; "and a shilling's worth gone from his smallclothes!"
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