Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The body-armor of the seventeenth century.
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Examples
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It’s sort of a half-suit, with half my skin showing
Mickey Rourke Talks About Whiplash’s Iron Man 2 Suit | /Film 2009
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Slobs who work at home can look their best for videoconferences with the Businessbib, a pullover half-suit that has a built in shirt and tie.
Boing Boing: September 17, 2006 - September 23, 2006 Archives 2006
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Oh, and look for the half-suit to show up in an Adam cartoon shortly.
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The facility is also equipped with the latest half-suit isolators for aseptic manufacturing processes, which are typically required to handle therapeutic proteins.
New Statesman 2010
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It’s sort of a half-suit, with half my skin showing, with lots of Russian tattoos, because Whiplash is just out of a Russian-zone prison.
Mickey Rourke Talks About Whiplash’s Iron Man 2 Suit | /Film 2009
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Any man can see for himself, that having a crowd for an Employer like this, a crowd of a hundred million people you cannot go to and that cannot come to you, puts one in a very vague, lonesome position, and when one thinks that on top of all this about forty or fifty millions of the people one is being The Head Employee of (in the other party) expect one to feel and really want one to feel lonesome with them, and that at the utmost all one can do, or ever hope to do is to about half-suit one's
The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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a half-suit of armor given to shield half the body, and a wise instinct to protect the rest.
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