Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Laid aside; no longer worn; as, left-off clothes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Laid aside; cast-off.
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Examples
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Time out of work makes it harder to get back into it; they can hardly be expected to pick-up where they left-off?
The Forgotten Work… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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Time out of work makes it harder to get back into it; they can hardly be expected to pick-up where they left-off?
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Explaining what is at stake in Derrida's readings in Glas, in "Hypogram and Inscription" De Man discusses Saussure's parenthetical and left-off work published by
Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005
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Given posts that are no longer on the homepage … or where comments peaked 100+ … nice to have weekly wrap-up (reminding me to revisit and see where comments left-off … or even if updates to the posts were necessary)
Last week on TechCrunch: Arrington’s fight, MG’s puns and Lacy’s Chinese Takeaways… Paul Carr 2005
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But she has a left-off jacket that one of her sisters gave her, and that will go outside and hide all the rest.
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Sisters of the Poor clothe as well as feed their charges: for this, too, they trust to charity, and left-off clothes are a great boon to them.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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Jacob borrowed the left-off garment, and kept it for himself.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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A pair of left-off unmentionables is confidently reported to be the cause of their visit in the "far East."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various
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Plowman, Count Cominges, Tudor novelists, were in a large measure left-off subjects.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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For further particulars apply to Messrs. Gag and Gammon, new and second-hand depôt for gentlemen's left-off facetiæ, Monmouth-street; and at their West-end establishment, opposite the Black Doll, and next door to
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 Various
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