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Suit

noun

1.

A set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color. Synonym: suit of clothes.

2.

A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy. Synonyms: case, causa, cause, lawsuit.

3.

(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit.

4.

A man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage). Synonyms: courting, courtship, wooing.

5.

A petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank.

6.

Playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color. "In bridge you must follow suit" , "What suit is trumps?"

verb

(past & past part. suited; pres. part. suiting)

1.

Be agreeable or acceptable to. Synonyms: accommodate, fit.

2.

Be agreeable or acceptable.

3.

Accord or comport with. Synonyms: befit, beseem.

4.

Enhance the appearance of. Synonym: become. "This behavior doesn't suit you!"

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"Suit" Quotes from Famous Books

... seen by the "Army List," returned to England, bringing with him an invalid wife who had never been introduced to her English relations. Major Jenkyns wrote to propose that he and his wife should spend a night at Cranford, on his way to Scotland—at the inn, if it did not suit Miss Matilda to receive them into her house; in which case they should hope to be with her as much as possible during the day. Of course it MUST suit her, as she said; for all Cranford knew that she had her sister's ...

— Cranford • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... in finest ivory; Nought modish in it, pure and noble lines Of generous womanhood that fits all time That too is costly ware; majolica Of deft design, to please a lordly eye: The smile, you see, is perfect—wonderful As mere Faience! a table ornament To suit ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... Ambrose was again walking through his hall. There is one compensation for us all in the large miseries of life—we no longer feel the little ones. His experience in his suit for Miss Anna's hand already seemed a trifle to Ambrose, who had grown used to bearing worse things from womankind. Miss Anna was not the only woman in the world, he averred, by way of swift indemnification. Indeed, in the very act of deciding upon her, he had been ...

— The Mettle of the Pasture • James Lane Allen

... first time the other noticed how the Governor was dressed—in a suit of some heavy brown stuff which looked as if it had been sprinkled and needed pressing. He wore a green tie and a striped shirt of the conspicuous kind that Stephen hated. Though the younger man was keenly critical of clothes, and perseveringly informed himself regarding the smallest details of fashion, ...

— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow

... furnished the idea of calling her a cartel vessel, and pretending that she came as such for an exchange of prisoners, which is false. She was delivered free and without condition, but it does not suit to let any new evidence appear of the ...

— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

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