Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Knitted in a shape that conforms closely to body lines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective knitted to fit the shape of the body.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective knitted to fit the shape of the body
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Examples
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AUSTIN: Several hundred, but not that many in full-fashioned.
Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, 1980 July 2. Interview H-107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Eunice Austin Eunice Austin 1980
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You take an eight-and-a-half foot in a full-fashioned hose, that's not very long, and you really had to work to get your what they called then bars filled, and you'd have twelve that you had to fill.
Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, 1980 July 2. Interview H-107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Eunice Austin Eunice Austin 1980
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Topping full-fashioned hose is what I was doing in the full-fashioned mill.
Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, 1980 July 2. Interview H-107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Eunice Austin Eunice Austin 1980
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They really didn't have to work as hard as we did; it was just a little more heavier work than the topping of the full-fashioned hose.
Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, 1980 July 2. Interview H-107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Eunice Austin Eunice Austin 1980
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But when they quit doing full-fashioned I had to hunt another job, so I learned to loop, and I looped socks for about five years.
Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, 1980 July 2. Interview H-107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Eunice Austin Eunice Austin 1980
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JH: So they were making full-fashioned hose and ....
Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, 1980 July 2. Interview H-107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Eunice Austin Eunice Austin 1980
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It was a pretty good job, but full-fashioned is over now.
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See, full-fashioned machines was altogether different from these little circle machines like the ones that makes socks or women's hose on, in just one little machine.
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They didn't even make full-fashioned hose like that.
Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, 1980 July 2. Interview H-107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Eunice Austin Eunice Austin 1980
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JH: Did you get any better pay for working on full-fashioned than on circular?
Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, 1980 July 2. Interview H-107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Eunice Austin Eunice Austin 1980
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