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Definition of Street clothes
1. Noun. Ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.).
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
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
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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