Meanings
nounout-fit (plural out-fits)
plural out-fits
- obsoleteObsolete form of outfit.
The out-fit is not a trifle: no lady can be landed there, under respectable circumstances throughout, for less than five hundred pounds... [Visiting India] is not like a trip, per hoy, to Margate, where nothing but a well-lined purse is requisite...
1810, Thomas Williamson, The East India Vade-Mecum, pages 453-454
Origin
From closer association with the verb form fit out.
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