out-fit

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English

Etymology

From closer association with the verb form fit out.

Noun

out-fit (plural out-fits)

  1. Obsolete form of outfit.
    • 1810, Thomas Williamson, The East India Vade-Mecum, pages 453-454:
      The out-fit is not a trifle: no lady can be landed there, under respectable circumstances throughout, for less than five hundred pounds... is not like a trip, per hoy, to Margate, where nothing but a well-lined purse is requisite...