suit a court-solicitation, a petition or request
made to a prince or statesman:
“It is my only suit”
AS YOU LIKE IT, ii. 7. 44
(with a quibble on the double meaning of suit—“apparel”
and“petition” );
“And then dreams he of smelling out a suit,”
ROMEO AND JULIET, i. 4. 78
;
“For obtaining of suits”
1 HENRY IV., i. 2. 69.
(repeated with a quibble on suits—
“petitions” and“clothes of a person hanged” )
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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