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Definition of Kid-glove
1. Adjective. Showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people. "The agency got the kid-glove treatment on Capitol Hill"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kid-glove
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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