Meanings
nounshooting suit (plural shooting suits)
plural shooting suits
- A specialised suit (shooting jacket, vest, and trousers), typically made of flannel or tweed, and designed to be used by hunters in the field.
Just then Job came up, looking very stout and English in his shooting-suit of brown flannel, and with a sort of perplexed appearance upon his honest round face that had been very common with him since he got into these strange waters.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
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