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Answer for the clue "Nothing to wear on one's special day? ", 13 letters:
birthday suit

Word definitions for birthday suit in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit" [syn: raw , altogether ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Birthday suit is a slang term for the naked human body. Birthday suit may also refer to:

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) nakedness; an exposure of a human's natural anatomy without clothing

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
first attested 1730s, but probably much older. The notion is the suit of clothes one was born in, i.e., no clothes at all. Compare Middle English mother naked "naked as the day one was born;" Middle Dutch moeder naect , German mutternackt .

Usage examples of birthday suit.

Henry is running down Broadway in his birthday suit with a pack of skinheads on his tail Oh, no.

No new birthday suit for him, neatly pressed and folded at the foot of his bed.

At the seventh gate, she was in her birthday suit, though we need not suppose that to be the reason Herod requested the dance at his birthday party.

His birthday suit was in dire shape, crisscrossed with red welts and areas where the blood had seeped up in tiny brown bubbles.

Why do you think Gretel goes running across the surface in her birthday suit?

Martha Sayre Culhane in her birthday suit jumped into his brain, accompanied by astonishingly clear and sharp memories of how warm, soft, and exciting the various parts of Martha's anatomy were.