Meaning of smallclothes | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Knee-length breeches, worn especially in the 18th century.
   plural, plural-only
2. Underwear and other small items of clothing.
   British, archaic, plural, plural-only

Examples

“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!'”

“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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