Definition of Street clothes

1. Noun. Ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.).


Definition of Street clothes

1. Noun. Ordinary clothes worn during everyday life, in contrast to those worn for some special occasion such as an athletic activity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Street Clothes

street-hockey
street-legal
street-light
street-smart
street-walk
street-wise
street Arab
street address
street addresses
street appeal
street arab
street art
street artist
street child
street cleaner
street clothes (current term)
street corner
street cred
street credibility
street dance
street dancer
street dancers
street drug
street elbow
street fighter
street fighters
street food
street foods
street furniture
street girl

Literary usage of Street clothes

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

1. An Uncensored Diary from the Central Empires by Ernesta Drinker Bullitt (1917)
"I played tennis with him this afternoon at the club, he in his suspenders and monocle, and I in street clothes, with a pair of borrowed tennis shoes two ..."

2. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"... mine clothes in one room and street clothes in another. ... other г «is then opened and street clothes put on; company's time-keeper and other desig- ..."

3. The Pillar of Fire: A Profane Baccalaureate by Seymour Deming (1915)
"... pillar to lead a people out of bondage, its high priests wear street clothes. When that faith has cooled and hardened into a creed, then its priests ..."

4. Personnel Administration: Its Principles and Practice by Ordway Tead, Henry Clayton Metcalf (1920)
"At night the work clothes are left to dry; the worker takes a bath, and proceeds to his locker and his street clothes with the traces of his work quite ..."

5. Personnel Administration: Its Principles and Practice by Ordway Tead, Henry Clayton Metcalf (1920)
"At night the work clothes are left to dry; the worker takes a bath, and proceeds to his locker and. his street clothes with the traces of his work quite ..."

6. Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams (1902)
"... from them the interior of their houses, and their more subtle pleasures, while of necessity exhibiting their street clothes and their street manners. ..."

7. Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams (1902)
"The poor naturally try to bridge the difference by reproducing the street clothes which they have seen. They are striving to conform to a common standard ..."

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