Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
leotard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls
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Examples
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Luch: Yeah, are The Brothers Strause those two Victorian muscle men in leotards with the moustaches?
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Appropriately, it was ` ` 80s Night '' at Amway Arena on Sunday, with music from the decade and cheerleaders in leotards. ...
USATODAY.com 2007
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He leads staffers—including Chief Executive Rob Fyfe —and local celebrities, all clad in Reagan-era leggings, leotards and headbands.
In the Name of Safety, Airlines Can Dance if They Want To Daniel Michaels 2011
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Dressing your female dancers in revealing leotards and your men in black-on-black designer suits and cryptic expressions is more than a little passé, except possibly at Nederlands Dans Theater.
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Lucy was looking very sneaky as she rummaged through her drawers to find black leotards, a black turtleneck, and black gloves.
E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011
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At figure-drawing classes at BYU, models wear full-body leotards to avoid any suggestion of impropriety.
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My mother saw the Devil everywhere, even in my dance teacher, with his black leotards and chest hair like bean sprouts.
Blind Chanel Dubofsky 2011
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Dee Dee is also prone to wearing leotards and demonstrating how cold the converted barn recording studio is.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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Many people cringe at the word and imagine tight leotards, sweating profusely, pain and suffering.
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At figure-drawing classes at BYU, models wear full-body leotards to avoid any suggestion of impropriety.
bilby commented on the word leotards
Can be singular or not?
September 23, 2008
frindley commented on the word leotards
Definitely singular. I wore a leotard to ballet class for 12 years (not the same leotard). If I ever wore leotards, plural, it was because it was extra cold or one the leotards was kind of see-through.
September 23, 2008