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Definition of Skintight
1. Adjective. So tight as to cling to the skin. "Skintight jeans"
Definition of Skintight
1. Adjective. Conforming tightly to the body, snug to the skin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skintight
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skintight
Literary usage of Skintight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"... they knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to jarvies in
highpitched provincial voices which pierced through their skintight accents. ..."
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"... they knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to jarvies in
highpitched provincial voices which pierced through their skintight accents. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1903)
"either shoulder, his silk breeches skintight. “You are late, sir,” she said.
He bowed demonstratively. “Madam,” he answered, “on a pleasanter errand I ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1904)
"... connected therewith, we cannot agree with him with respect to the " skintight"
binder of " unyielding material," with its " 12 wide straps and buckles. ..."
5. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"... Induration of the cellular tissue. SKIN, BRONZED, see Capsule, renal—s.
Scarf, Epidermis. skintight, Induration of the cellular ..."
6. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1907)
"... in a typical way about the head, and the skintight blue and red trousers, seem
to make them more akin to the Moros of the South than to the Visayans. ..."
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