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  2. History of suits - Wikipedia

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    Back in 1955, when denim was the height of rebelliousness, Sloan Wilson's novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit turned a men's classic into a synonym for drab, middle-class conformity . . . Flannel had humble beginnings — the name is reputedly derived from "gwlanen," Welsh for woolen cloth — and was used for underwear in the 19th century.

  3. Suit - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Samantha Power and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin wearing business wear suits as per their gender, 2016. The word suit derives from the French suite, [3] meaning "following," from some Late Latin derivative form of the Latin verb sequor = "I follow," because the component garments (jacket and trousers and waistcoat) follow each other and have the same cloth and ...

  4. Glossary of card game terms - Wikipedia

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    To blank a suit is to get rid of all the cards of that suit from one's hand. [15] blaze A hand consisting only of court cards. [15] blind. A dummy hand, for example, in Cego. Cards dealt to the table as a skat or widow. blocking Blocking a suit is keeping a high card back so that the player with a number of smaller cards cannot win tricks with ...

  5. Powered exoskeleton - Wikipedia

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    Other names for this concept include power or (high-tech) armor; powered, cybernetic, robot or robotic (armor) or suit; exo or (hard) suit; frame or augmented mobility. [ 2 ] ) The exoskeleton is designed to provide better mechanical load tolerance, and its control system aims to sense and synchronize with the user's intended motion and relay ...

  6. Ghillie suit - Wikipedia

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    A ghillie suit is a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble the background environment – such as foliage. Typically, it is a net or cloth garment covered in loose strips of burlap ( hessian ), cloth, twine , or jute sometimes made to look like leaves and twigs, and optionally augmented with foliage from the area.

  7. Trump (card games) - Wikipedia

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    A 6 of cups is tucked under the deck in a game of Brisca, to show that cups is the trump suit. A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games. Typically an entire suit is nominated as a trump suit; these cards then outrank all cards of plain (non-trump

  8. Formal trousers - Wikipedia

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    Formal trousers were originally introduced in the first half of the 19th century as a complement to the then widely worn frock coat.As established formal day attire trousers, they were subsequently introduced to go with the morning dress, which in turn gradually replaced the frock coat as formal day attire standard by 20th century, along with its semi-formal equivalent black lounge suit.

  9. Boilersuit - Wikipedia

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    A boilersuit (or boiler suit), also known as coveralls, is a loose fitting garment covering the whole body except for the head, hands and feet. Terminology.