Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
tie, ruff, collar, cravat, stock,
handkerchief, scarf; bib, tucker; boa; cummerbund, rumal[obs3], rabat[obs3].
     shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche[obs3], galoshes, patten,
clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral[obs3]; arctics, bootee, bootikin[obs3], brogan, chaparajos[obs3]; chavar[obs3], chivarras[obs3], chivarros[obs3]; gums [U.S.], larrigan [obs3][N.  Am.], rubbers, showshoe, stogy[obs3], veldtschoen[Ger], legging, buskin, greave[obs3], galligaskin[obs3], gamache[obs3], gamashes[obs3], moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash[obs3], brogue, antigropelos[obs3]; stocking, hose, gaskins[obs3], trunk hose, sock; hosiery.
     glove, gauntlet, mitten, cuff, wristband, sleeve.
     swaddling cloth, baby linen, layette; ice wool; taffeta.
     pocket handkerchief, hanky[obs3], hankie.
     clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress[obs3], snip;
dressmaker, habitmaker[obs3], breechesmaker[obs3], shoemaker; Crispin; friseur[Fr]; cordwainer[obs3], cobbler, hosier[obs3], hatter; draper, linen draper, haberdasher, mercer.
     [underpants for babies] diaper, nappy[obs3][Brit]; disposable diaper,
cloth diaper; Luvs[brand names for diapers], Huggies. 
     V. invest; cover &c. 223; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap[obs3],
enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest.
     vest, clothe, array, dress, dight[obs3], drape, robe, enrobe, attire,
apparel, accounter[obs3], rig, fit out; deck &c. (ornament) 847; perk, equip, harness, caparison.
     wear; don; put on, huddle on, slip on; mantle. 
     Adj. invested &c. v.; habited; dighted[obs3]; barbed, barded; clad,
costume, shod, chausse[Fr]; en grande tenue &c. (show) 882[Fr].
     sartorial. 
     Phr. “the soul of this man is his clothes” [All’s Well].

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     #226.  Divestment. —­ N. divestment; taking off &c. v..
     nudity; bareness &c. adj.; undress; dishabille &c. 225; the
altogether; nudation[obs3], denudation; decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation; molting; exfoliation; trichosis[Med]. 
     V. divest; uncover &c. (cover &c. 223); denude, bare, strip;
disfurnish[obs3]; undress, disrobe &c. (dress, enrobe &c. 225); uncoif[obs3]; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin. 
     Adj. divested &c. v.; bare, naked, nude; undressed, undraped; denuded;
exposed; in dishabille; bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless.
     in a state of nature, in nature’s garb, in the buff, in native buff,
in birthday suit; in puris naturalibus[Lat]; with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked [joc.]; bald as a coot, bare as the back of one’s hand; out at elbows; barefoot; bareback, barebacked; leafless, napless[obs3], hairless.

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