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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



... superabundance, and are immensely rich; still, such have been the extortionate prices that they have been compelled to pay for their commonest artificial luxuries and wearing-apparel, that generally they are but indifferently provided with the ordinary necessaries of civilized life. For a suit of clothes, which in New York or Boston would cost seventy-five dollars, the Californian has been compelled to pay five times that sum in hides at one dollar and fifty cents; so that a caballero, to clothe himself genteelly, has been obliged, as often as he renewed his dress, to sacrifice ...
— What I Saw in California • Edwin Bryant

... the policy of the Bureau, when such a case is discovered, to help the wife get competent legal advice in the city where action is being brought, and either to contest the case or start a counter suit. Where necessary the woman is sent on to appear ...
— Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment • Joanna C. Colcord

... remember your suit," Lord Williams answered. The lighted torch was laid to the faggots. "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames; "Play the man: we shall this day light such a candle, by God's, grace, in ...
— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude

... where he belonged, he rooted in great haste and excitement among the contents of a cheap pasteboard suit case and presently pulled out a torn and battered old copy of the scout handbook. He sat down on the edge of his cot and, hurriedly looking through the index, opened the book at page thirty. He was breathing so hard that ...
— Tom Slade on Mystery Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... many a Danish axe at his command. Nay, only lately for a few rude jests, he caused some of his chief jarls to be slain without a trial. Half the country is still pagan, and though the king himself is baptized, there is no certainty that, if the Christian faith do not suit his taste, he may not join the heathen party and return to the worship of Thor and Tyr, where deeds of blood would be not blameworthy, but a passport to the rude joys of Valhall. Nevertheless there is a pastoral staff across the doorway, barring the way of the king, ...
— A Book of Golden Deeds • Charlotte M. Yonge


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