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  2. Bespoke - Wikipedia

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    The word bespoke is most known for its "centuries-old relationship" with tailor-made suits, [2] but the Oxford English Dictionary also ties the word to shoemaking in the mid-1800s. [7] Although it is now used as an adjective, it was originally used as the past participle of bespeak. [2]

  3. Bespoke (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Bespoke is an adjective for anything commissioned to a particular specification. Specific uses include: Bespoke medicine, a movement to better fit ...

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    suite of rooms set aside for a particular person (rare), usu. rented housing unit in a larger building implying luxury (In other words, a narrower definition than the US.) (Overlapping with the rare usage in reference to stately homes or historic properties which have been converted into residential units.)

  5. Bespoke tailoring - Wikipedia

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    The word bespoke derives from the verb bespeak, to speak for something, in the specialised meaning of "to give order for it to be made." [1] Fashion terminology reserves bespoke for individually patterned and crafted men's clothing, analogous to women's haute couture, [2] as opposed to mass-manufactured ready-to-wear (off-the-peg or off-the-rack).

  6. Moby Project - Wikipedia

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    The Moby Thesaurus II contains 30,260 root words, with 2,520,264 synonyms and related terms – an average of 83.3 per root word. Each line consists of a list of comma-separated values, with the first term being the root word, and all following words being related terms. Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain in 1996.

  7. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    a person from Newcastle upon Tyne, or used as an adjective to describe the accent or culture of the surrounding Tyne and Wear region of England. get on [one's] tits annoy or irritate. gherkin a pickled cucumber (US: "pickle") git *

  8. Adjective - Wikipedia

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    An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns. [1]

  9. Bespoke shoes - Wikipedia

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    Bespoke shoes or custom shoes are shoes made especially for a certain customer by a shoemaker. [1] The feet are measured and a last for each foot is created. At the fitting, the customer tries the prototype pair of shoes made in an inexpensive leather and the shoemaker checks if anything needs to be changed. If so, the changes are applied to ...