Wearing someone's cast-off clothes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Its plastic exterior is partly derived from cast-off. From Wordnik.com. [Avital Binshtock: High-Grade Goods: Take Back-to-School Shopping Back to the Earth] Reference
There lay upon the floor the little cast-off garments. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
But I guess they're made over and cast-off, or something. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
Exuviation: the act of molting: the cast-off skin or exuvium. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Mr. Whitwell had taken cast-off clothing from the rubbish-box. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
Harriette, the cast-off Harriette of last year, bobbed forward. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Why, the dark-skinned old-clo 'men, who hang their cast-off raiment in Brattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Under the serpent-like branches, we find nothing but the cast-off skins of the snakes. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Looking back Mary saw the mother bird fluttering wildly about over the cast-off pile of leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Sometimes he got a suit of cast-off clothes in payment; sometimes only bed and board for a time. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
By this time the ground was littered with cast-off loads, while the natives fled in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
Of course everybody in the neighborhood had known all the time that she was wearing Helen's cast-off clothing. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
This is beyond belief, yet it attracted no attention from the common people, who perhaps got the cast-off hats. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
We were already in a black misery by the time all the cast-off rice came here after the earthquake of January 12. From Wordnik.com. [Beverly Bell: "Help Us Produce, Don't Give Us Food" -- Food Sovereignty in Haiti (Part IV)] Reference
A junk-shop is where old ropes, old anchors, old iron, and cast-off odds and ends of all kinds are kept for sale. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
The empty launch with the negroes was now cast-off, and preparations made for raising the anchor again and making sail. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
This was she in whose behalf he had weakly lowered himself to plead to his own cast-off slave for extenuating evidences!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The rapidly changing styles cause people to throw upon the market a great amount of cast-off clothing only partially worn. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Only those who have lived three days without food can understand how delicious even those cast-off fish bones looked to me. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
Down they went in every conceivable attitude, and, uncovering their feet, commenced pelting each other with the cast-off leathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The uneasiness proceeded from the fact that she was completely in the power of the Dead Man, who knew that she was the cast-off wife of. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
And so that poor, outcast, despised, dishonored woman, scorned and cast-off by all the world, had found one sympathizing, pitying friend. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
Spanish prisoners on their arrival at Fort Roosevelt, and appropriated all the cast-off articles they could find, using the debris for bedding. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Descendants of the ancient race of Abraham, dealers in cast-off raiment, would have scorned to bargain for our rusty suits of Confederate gray. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
On her shining golden curls she had set a cast-off garden-hat belonging to Aunt Catharine, of brown straw, in what was known as the mushroom shape. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
The clothing of the Negrito consists simply of the breechcloth and an occasional cast-off shirt given him by some Filipino in exchange for articles. From Wordnik.com. [Negritos of Zambales] Reference
Before her words reach my brain, she's got one end of that maroon monster, a cast-off from Steve's mother, waist high and swinging away from the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Circling '84] Reference
There sits enthroned this cast-off bauble of some nursery, emblazoned with jewels enough to supply the means to educate the whole population of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
Then he asked them to leave him alone with me for a little while, and when they came back into the room, nothing remained of him but the cast-off mortality. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Once in a while give them a holiday, or an evening off, a cash remembrance at Christmas, and from time to time some part of your wardrobe or cast-off clothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
After the play, Rice, having shaded his own countenance to the "contraband" hue, ordered Cuff to disrobe, and proceeded to invest himself in the cast-off apparel. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
She had to wear the frock, however, for want of another; and in the autumn, when the days began to be chilly, a cast-off jacket of Jim's was added to the affliction. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
There was a time when anything was good enough for young people -- cast-off clothing, second place at table and the poorest sleeping-room, with snubbing at every hand. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
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