close-bodied

English

Adjective

close-bodied (comparative more close-bodied, superlative most close-bodied)

Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.
- 1829, Robet Hawker, A new uniform edition of the works of the rev. Robert:
  it was the custom to wear underneath their hykes (the hyke was a large woollen blanket) a close bodied frock or tunic , not unlike the Roman tunic.

References

“close-bodied”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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