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Mufti N Plain Clothes Worn Person Wears Uniform

Word mufti
Definition n. Plain clothes worn by a person who wears a uniform for their job.
Sentence There was a boxer at the St Nicholas Rink a few weeks ago who came up against an opponent with an unpleasantly forceful left hook which he kept applying to the spot on the athlete's body where, when he was in mufti, his third waistcoat button would have been.
Source From Over Seventy, The Best of Wodehouse, p. 743

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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