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undergarment
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Undergarments are items of clothing worn beneath outer clothes, usually in direct contact with the skin, although they may comprise more than a single layer. They serve to keep outer garments from being soiled or damaged by bodily excretions , to lessen ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin; an item of underwear.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from under + garment (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a garment worn under other garments [ant: overgarment ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Harry could see the sun glistening on the naked patches of her body although she had not yet removed her undergarments. ▪ He could also see a line of washing, which included, he realized to his delight, the clerical undergarments. ...
Usage examples of undergarment.
Laughing, Lorielle went to the camphorwood chest where her undergarments had been put the night before.
Bernal began to lay out rough garb that matched his own: leather jacket, pants, and mocs, with shirt and undergarments of wool.
Those seemed content to observe, like myself, bur they had all disrobed, though three or four of them Romanly kept on a single undergarment: a strophion about the breasts, a belt around the waist, a skimpy loincloth.
The silkaline undergarments were more comfortable than what he was currently wearing.
Along with their pack frames of caribou antler, Torka, Manaravak, and Grek each wore undergarments, stockings, and mitten liners of the supplest skins of caribou calves, chewed to a consistency of velvet by the women and girls of the band.
Most of the female undergarments were visible on the bed but the outer garments had been transferred to the person of Miss Hardin.
Piled on top were silky undergarments, nightgowns, blouses delicately embroidered with fine intricate lace, and skirts-skirts of black, gray, forest green, and beige.
Riley was generous to a fault when it came to Etta, giving the Indian woman her many cast-off dresses, shoes, and undergarments.
Juana turned her back to the door and continued unlacing her undergarments.
O YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT Though only one-half ethnic Arab and a Canadian by birth and residence, the medical attache is nevertheless once again under Saudi diplomatic immunity, this time as special ear-nose-throat consultant to the personal physician of Prince Q , the Saudi Minister of Home Entertainment, here on northeastern U.
It was partly a matter of plain old taste: ad-critics argued that the NoCoat spots were equivalent to like Preparation H filming a procto-exam, or a Depend Adult Undergarment camera panning for floor-puddles at a church social.
EARLY NOVEMBER YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT The only bona fide blackmailable thing about Rodney Tine, Chief, U.
Some ironist who decamped back Out There and left his meager effects to be bagged and tossed by Staff into the Ennet House attic had, all the way back in the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad, permanently engraved his tribute to AA's real Prime Directive with a rosewood-handled boot-knife in the plastic seat of the 5-Man men's room's commode: 'Do not ask WHY If you dont want to DIE Do like your TOLD If you want to get OLD143 30 APRIL / 1 MAY YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT The choreography of interface had settled into the form of Steeply smoking, his bare arms crossed, going up and down slowly on the toes of his high heels, while Marathe hunched slightly in his metal chair, shoulders rounded and head slightly forward in a practiced position that allowed him almost to sleep while still attending to every detail of a conversation or wearisome surveillance.
She wore the diaperlike undergarment universal here, and dried blood marked a scattering of whip marks on her back.
He paused to smooth away that roughness, at the same time slipping his hands under her corset cover to stretch the laces wider and soothe the indentations caused by the undergarment.