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Definition of Tight-fitting
1. Adjective. Fitting snugly. "Tight-fitting clothes"
Definition of Tight-fitting
1. Adjective. Snug, skintight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tight-fitting
Literary usage of Tight-fitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1887)
"should be provided with a tight-fitting cover, a. I make the vessel, C, of wood,
as an essential feature of my invention, in order that the steam may sweat ..."
2. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the by P. L. Jacob (1876)
"tight-fitting Gowns.—General Character of Dress under Francis I.—Uniformity of
Dress. ONG garments alone were worn by the ancients, and up to the period ..."
3. A Compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary by James Thomas Molesworth, Baba Padmanji (1863)
"3 tight-fitting — a garment. 4 Tight. 5 Strained- eyes. 6 Firm, robust. 7 Complete,
perfect ; good, full. 8 Strong and stout. HI. Stiffness. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The Prankish women who had been content with their simple costume of a black
robe, a tight- fitting mantle and a cap were transformed to Merovingian ladies ..."
5. Economy in the Kitchen by James Frank Breazeale (1918)
"The only things necessary are a tight-fitting cover and a false bottom, as is
shown in Fig. 7. A false bottom is absolutely necessary in order to prevent ..."
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