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Fauntleroy suit
noun
- a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
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Origin of Fauntleroy suit1
Example Sentences
Mrs. Ogletree even primped her boy Georgie, whom she鈥檇 gadded up in a green velvet Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.
The portrait shows a young boy in a red velvet outfit that Vehr calls his 鈥淟ittle Lord Fauntleroy鈥 suit.
Cedric, like most other little boys of his age and standing, was forced to wear a Lord Fauntleroy suit, from which his cropped bullet head and spectacles emerged incongruously.
Violinist Ruggiero Ricci appeared on the stage at Carnegie Hall for the first time dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit with flowing white bow tie and velvet kneepants.
She kept Lorna Doone and Tennyson within easy reach of the Willson children, and dressed curly-haired Meredith in a black velvet Fauntleroy suit on the occasions when he spoke a piece at the Congregational Sunday School.
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