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Adjective
close-fitting (comparative more close-fitting, superlative most close-fitting)
- (of clothing etc.) Snug, tight, form-fitting.
Her close-fitting clothes showed off her assets.
1945 November and December, A. B. MacLeod, “Development of the L.B.S.C.R. Driver's Cab”, in Railway Magazine, pages 335–336:Though this arrangement was a vast improvement on what had gone before, the engine crew were still very conscious of a side wind round their legs, and it was not until 1892 that R. J. Billinton rectified this, when he built his "D3" Class 0-4-4 bogie tank engines Nos. 363-398, and provided them with waist-high close-fitting cab doors.
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