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- obsoleteuncountableA change of clothing; a spare
I'll tell you, gentlemen, let them but lend him a suit of reparel and necessaries and, by Gad, if any of them all blow wind in the tail on him, I'll be hanged.
1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
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