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Get-up (A)

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A style of dress, as “His get-up was excellent,” meaning his style of dress exactly suited the part he professed to enact.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Geryoneo
Gesmas (g hard)
Gessler (g hard)
Gesta Romanorum (g soft)
Geste or Gest (g soft)
Get (To)
Get, Got
Get by Heart (To)
Get One’s Back Up (To)
Get-up (A)
Get up (To)
Gethsemane
Gewgaw (g hard)
Ghebers or Guebres
Ghibelline (g hard)
Ghost
Ghoul
Giaffir (Djaf-fir)
Giall
Giallar Bridge