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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suiting
noun
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▪ Remember the importance of neat and sober suiting when you are in court, or indeed out of it.
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Suiting

Suit \Suit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suited; p. pr. & vb. n. Suiting.]

  1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
    --Shak.

  2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.

    Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.
    --Dryden.

    Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee.
    --Prior.

  3. To dress; to clothe. [Obs.]

    So went he suited to his watery tomb.
    --Shak.

  4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

Suiting

Suiting \Suit"ing\, n. Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.

Wiktionary
suiting

n. fabric for making suits vb. (present participle of suit English)

WordNet
suiting

n. a fabric used for suits

Usage examples of "suiting".

As if Destiny were suiting her plans to his, one of the first persons he saw as he entered the lobby of the Cosmopolis was the long boy.

When a mortal is so lucky as to be in the good graces of the god Plutus, and is not crackbrained, he is pretty sure to succeed in everything: I had not to search very long before I found a casino suiting my purpose exactly.

In autumn the tahr becomes immensely fat and heavy, and his flesh is then in high favour with the natives, the rank flavour suiting their not very delicate palates.

The Doctor appeared in his nicely cut tropical suit of tussore or shantung, and a bow tie, a formality suiting his grave, balanced pose.

Insidious but necessary is the whorish knack a journalist must develop of suiting his pitch to the particular client.

When a mortal is so lucky as to be in the good graces of the god Plutus, and is not crackbrained, he is pretty sure to succeed in everything: I had not to search very long before I found a casino suiting my purpose exactly.

Staging Area Fagin was standing under a high arc light and watching his marshals suiting up Banish in a BDU, a battle dress uniform, black fatigues and a flak jacket and bullet-proof helmet.

He studied keenly each rivetlike projection on the inner frame of the wicket at the left, and on two of them he found tiny threads of gray woolen, suggesting suiting of the kind traveling Englishmen are very likely to wear.

Boadle beaned by a barrel of flour whence the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur tendered by Harry in an image more suiting those unnatural persons mounting, in an almost inverse proportion to the millions, billions in settlements, the frivolous legal heights of corporate anonymity, in Harry's hands become the chandelier he's dropped here in Oscar's path, arching his good knee, squaring the pillow, his glasses again, licking a thumb to flick over the cover page of Szyrk v.

Suiting up, going over the fifty-one-point PLS checklist, and depressurizing had taken more time than it had in the simulations.

He shows an "ability to use his styles flexibly, adaptively, suiting the dance to the music.

It was nice to be able to walk between one rover and another without suiting up, or, to get to the crux of the matter, risking death.

Perhaps tomorrow I'll be the one who least minds suiting up and going outside to get the water, and you'll be in the mood to turn out some johnny-cake or porridge while others feed the stoves and chickens.

Well, well, 'pon my soul, if it Isn't our navigating officer, the Honourable Carpenter, lost as usual and dressed to kill in his natty gent's suiting.

The fresh root is bitter, with a milky juice which is somewhat aperient and slightly sedative, suiting subjects troubled with bilious torpor, whilst, on good authority, the plant has been pronounced useful against pulmonary consumption.