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A family-taught seamstress and self-trained designer with a degree in English lit, she started cutting and sewing dresses by hand out of her home in Michigan.

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  1. verb A past tense and a past participle of light1. See Usage Note at light1.
  2. adjective Informal. Drunk or drugged. Often used with up.
  3. verb A past tense and a past participle of light2.
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  • I graduated, but a degree in English lit and a flair for poetry don't pay rent or buy food, and it wasn't in Dave's scheme of things to hold down a job. —  Marcia Muller - [16] A Wild and Lonely Place
  • When I was there, I majored in English lit and got Cs for a couple of years before dropping out, which pretty well prepped me for my present career, pouring lattes at minimum wage. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • In the headlights it was fairly well-lit, and apparently dead. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 06 - June 1994
  • Mr. Prout says that the staircase was well-lit, and that deceased was not going extra fast, while the others say that he fell all of a heap, forwards, clutching The Times Atlas in so fierce a grip that it could afterwards hardly be prised from his fingers. —  Murder Must Advertise
  • He found himself in a brightly-lit chamber—too brightly lit, and in an oddly yellow-greenish light that seemed to come from the entire ceiling. —  Shining Steel
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lit:   lighting ·  lights ·  lighted ·  light
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  1. Middle English lit, lyt, lut (also lite, lute, lute, partly as abbreviation of litel, lytel, little), from Anglo-Saxon lyt = Old Saxon lut, little: see little, and cf. lite.
  2. from Middle English lit, little, from Icelandic litr, color, dye, earlier complexion, face, countenance, = Anglo-Saxon white, beauty, splendor, form, hue, face.
  3. from Middle English litten, liten, from Icelandic lita, dye, color, from litr, dye, color: see lit, n.
 

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