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Suit

noun

1.

A set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color. Synonym: suit of clothes.

2.

A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy. Synonyms: case, causa, cause, lawsuit.

3.

(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit.

4.

A man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage). Synonyms: courting, courtship, wooing.

5.

A petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank.

6.

Playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color. "In bridge you must follow suit" , "What suit is trumps?"

verb

(past & past part. suited; pres. part. suiting)

1.

Be agreeable or acceptable to. Synonyms: accommodate, fit.

2.

Be agreeable or acceptable.

3.

Accord or comport with. Synonyms: befit, beseem.

4.

Enhance the appearance of. Synonym: become. "This behavior doesn't suit you!"

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"Suit" Quotes from Famous Books

... worry, for that is bad for your voice. If you have not made this tone correctly, or sung that phrase to suit yourself, pass it over for the moment with a wave of the hand or a smile; but don't become discouraged. Go right on! I knew a beautiful American in Paris who possessed a lovely voice. But she had a very sensitive nature, which could not endure hard knocks. She began to worry ...

— Vocal Mastery - Talks with Master Singers and Teachers • Harriette Brower

... unfortunate separation from his mother. After paying for his new purchase, he drew him aside, and said, in a kind tone, "Come, my little man, stop crying; my boys never cry. If you behave yourself you shall have fine times with me. Stop crying now, and come with me; I am going to buy you a new suit ...

— The Garies and Their Friends • Frank J. Webb

... have to get back and change your clothes. The performance is about over. That makes me think. I have on my ring clothes under this suit and I must hurry back to my bath ...

— The Circus Boys On the Mississippi • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... cardinal five thousand ducats per annum out of its revenues. A few years before this, this very same pope excommunicated the State, because she had imprisoned two churchmen for heinous crimes; the strife lasted for more than a year, and ended through the mediation of Henry IV., at whose suit the prisoners were delivered to the French ambassador, who made them over ...

— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin

... the tub may be the same as those of an ordinary bath tub. To suit individual cases however, its length may be made to vary. The only peculiarity in its construction is at the head. Here, instead of slanting, it is made square, and the slightly concave (from side to side) board against which the ...

— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig

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