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tights


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tights  \Tights\,  n.  pl 
  Close-fitting  garments,  especially  for  the  lower  part  of  the 
  body  and  the  legs. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tights 
  n  1:  skintight  knit  garment  covering  the  body  from  the  waist  to 
  the  feet  worn  by  acrobats  and  dancers  and  as  stockings 
  by  women  and  girls 
  2:  man's  garment  of  the  16th  and  17th  centuries;  worn  with  a 
  doublet  [syn:  {hose}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  TIGHTS,  n.  An  habiliment  of  the  stage  designed  to  reinforce  the 
  general  acclamation  of  the  press  agent  with  a  particular  publicity. 
  Public  attention  was  once  somewhat  diverted  from  this  garment  to  Miss 
  Lillian  Russell's  refusal  to  wear  it  and  many  were  the  conjectures  as 
  to  her  motive,  the  guess  of  Miss  Pauline  Hall  showing  a  high  order  of 
  ingenuity  and  sustained  reflection.  It  was  Miss  Hall's  belief  that 
  nature  had  not  endowed  Miss  Russell  with  beautiful  legs.  This  theory 
  was  impossible  of  acceptance  by  the  male  understanding,  but  the 
  conception  of  a  faulty  female  leg  was  of  so  prodigious  originality  as 
  to  rank  among  the  most  brilliant  feats  of  philosophical  speculation! 
  It  is  strange  that  in  all  the  controversy  regarding  Miss  Russell's 
  aversion  to  tights  no  one  seems  to  have  thought  to  ascribe  it  to  what 
  was  known  among  the  ancients  as  "modesty."  The  nature  of  that 
  sentiment  is  now  imperfectly  understood,  and  possibly  incapable  of 
  exposition  with  the  vocabulary  that  remains  to  us  The  study  of  lost 
  arts  has  however,  been  recently  revived  and  some  of  the  arts 
  themselves  recovered.  This  is  an  epoch  of  _renaissances_,  and  there 
  is  ground  for  hope  that  the  primitive  blush"  may  be  dragged  from  its 
  hiding-place  amongst  the  tombs  of  antiquity  and  hissed  on  to  the 
  stage. 
 
 




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