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Skin-tight   /skɪn-taɪt/   Listen
Skin-tight

adjective
1.
So tight as to cling to the skin.  Synonym: skintight.






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"Skin-tight" Quotes from Famous Books



... dark, an hour and a half before the sun would burst over the top of the jungle, when Sinclair went to the cadets' room to rouse them. He found them already up and dressed in their jungle garb. Each boy was wearing skin-tight trousers and jerseys made of double strength space-suit cloth and colored a dark moldy green. A hunter dressed in this manner and standing still could not be seen at twenty paces. The snug fit of the suit was protection ...
— The Revolt on Venus • Carey Rockwell

... he stood by her side. "Paris has lost all good taste and sense of the fitness of things. Look! the women who are the most expert in the wriggle of the tango are mostly over forty years old! Do you see that one in the skin-tight pink robe? She is a grandmother! All are painted—all are feverish—all would be young! It is ever thus when a country is on the eve of a cataclysm—it ...
— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn

... it become fit for the home of man, and then Adam and Eve appeared. They wuzn't clothed in much besides innocence, but somehow they didn't look so immodest as some of the fashonably dressed females of to-day, with dekolitay and peek-a-boo waists, and skin-tight drapery. ...
— Samantha at Coney Island - and a Thousand Other Islands • Marietta Holley



Words linked to "Skin-tight" :   skintight, tight



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