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Definition of Leotards
1. Noun. Skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls.
Generic synonyms: Hose, Hosiery
Specialized synonyms: Maillot, Pantyhose
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Definition of Leotards
1. Noun. (plural of leotard) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leotards
1. leotard [n] - See also: leotard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leotards
Literary usage of Leotards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"... leotards, Blondins, officers in the Black Watch betting freely on questions
of orthography—in K 3 ..."
2. Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections from My Journal, 1884-1888 by Herriot Georgina Dufferin et Ava (1890)
"Fancy seeing fifty heaven-born leotards flying from branch to branch down a
precipice, many of them with babies clinging to them! ..."
3. The Competition Wallah by George Otto Trevelyan (1866)
"... is a diversity of minor subjects of conversation—novels, plays, reviews,
heretical books, sensation-histories of the Crimean War, leotards, Blondins, ..."
4. The Musical World (1871)
"... and principal part—in that feeling which attracts crowds to witness the feats
of Blondins, male and female, and gape at the leaps of leotards and Lulus. ..."
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