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A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Court train – Worn for formal court occasions, the court train had to fall in with strict dress codes which differed from court to court. For example, the French court code set in 1804 by Jean-Baptiste Isabey prescribed a four-inch maximum width for embroidered train borders for non-Royal wearers. [1]
Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging.
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
An advertisement for an interlined shirt-bosom (dickey) made of Fiberloid, a trademarked plastic material. (1912) In clothing for men, a dickey (also dickie and dicky, and tuxedo front in the U.S.) is a type of shirtfront that is worn with black tie (tuxedo) and with white tie evening clothes. [1]
Shrugs are typically worn as the outermost layer of an outfit, with a full shirt, tank top, or dress beneath. A bolero jacket or bolero (pronounced / ˈ b ɒ l ə r oʊ / or / b ə ˈ l ɛər oʊ / in British English and / b ə ˈ l ɛər oʊ / in American English) [ 2 ] is a more formal garment of similar construction but made of stiffer ...
Outfit, a synonym for equipment, kit, gear; Outfit, colloquial for (a band of) people, group, gang, bunch; Outfit, a crime syndicate or other organization; The Outfit, alternate name for the Chicago Outfit crime syndicate in the US; Outfit (retailer), a chain of out-of-town clothing stores in the UK
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