Definition of Kid glove

1. Noun. A glove made of fine soft leather (as kidskin).

Exact synonyms: Suede Glove
Generic synonyms: Glove

Definition of Kid glove

1. Noun. (&lit kid glove) ¹

2. Noun. (context: often in plural) (non-gloss definition A metaphorical representation of careful handling.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kid Glove

kickstarting
kickstarts
kickstool
kickstools
kicksy-wicksy
kickt
kickup
kickups
kicky
kicky-wicky
kid
kid-glove
kid around
kid brother
kid brothers
kid glove (current term)
kid gloves
kid leather
kid on the square
kid sister
kid sisters
kidd blood-group system
kiddcreekite
kidded
kidder
kidderminsters
kidders
kiddhoge
kiddie
kiddie car

Literary usage of Kid glove

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties by Everit Brown, Albert Strauss (1907)
"Kid-glove politics (which see) is a similar expression. Silver Bill, The, was a bill passed by Congress, vetoed by President Hayes, and passed over his veto ..."

2. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1906)
"Third Philharmonic concert; " kid-glove " fable. The Idealistin. " Veil of Maya."—Fourth concert; Wagner, indignant, almost departs; canards old and new ..."

3. The Women of Mormonism; Or, The Story of Polygamy as Told by the Victims by Jennie Anderson Froiseth (1882)
"No Kid-Glove Proceedings.— The Young Men LETTER NUMBER ONE. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, Jan. 11, 1881. J-OUR letter of December 28, 1880, asking in substance why ..."

4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"The cheap kid glove hardly has enough endurance for a street glove, though a cheap many - buttoned gant de Suède, if one is so fortunate as to find a make ..."

5. Sparks from the Camp Fire; Or, Tales of the Old Veterans. Thrilling Stories edited by Joseph W. Morton (1890)
"... Yea, when our babes are old.'" " Pshaw, Fred I you are getting sentimental. Let's go out in the air and have another cigar." A "KID-GLOVE" BRIGADIER. ..."

6. The Leather Glove Industry in the United States by Daniel Walter Redmond (1913)
"The grounds for the demurrer are that a ladies' kid glove cutter is an expert mechanic ; that he is not a person engaged in common or ordinary labor ..."

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