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SUITING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suiting mean? 

SUITING (noun)
  The noun SUITING has 1 sense:

1. a fabric used for suitsplay

  Familiarity information: SUITING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUITING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A fabric used for suits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("suiting" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)


 Context examples 


But I can assure you, she added, that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It looks hospitable, and I want the poor child to have a good time after all her trouble, said Mrs. March, suiting the action to the word.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I should wish her to be brought up in a manner suiting her prospects, continued my benefactress; to be made useful, to be kept humble: as for the vacations, she will, with your permission, spend them always at Lowood.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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