Definitions

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  • noun a person's costume (especially if bizarre)

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Examples

  • Also, to my eye it was the flashiest rigout in the whole light cavalry, all blue and gold - the darker the better, when you've got the figure for it, which of course I had.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Not what you'd call a guard of honour - yet that's what they were, as I learned when their officer, a handsome young Sikh in a splendid rigout of yellow silk, addressed me by name - and by fame.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Not what you'd call a guard of honour — yet that's what they were, as I learned when their officer, a handsome young Sikh in a splendid rigout of yellow silk, addressed me by name — and by fame.

    Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Raish has got a whole new rigout of clothes and goes struting around as if everything was due to his smartness.

    Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "I don't feel quite at home on board the ship in the rigout I have worn all night."

    A Victorious Union Oliver Optic 1859

  • Morah, a mother of five, looked beautiful with a new hairdo and a seriously styled rigout

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • Morah, a mother of five, looked beautiful with a new hairdo and a seriously styled rigout

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • The umpteen how to write a business plan divinity to bombie chimneysweep or albedo palladio, hits up rigout, presbyter costanoan or sureness a heartbreaker rearward of the jaggedness.

    Rational Review 2009

  • I will do that, sazd Kersse, mainingstaying the rigout for her wife’s lairdship.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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