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Webster 1913 Edition
Setout
Set′outˊ
,Noun.
A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed.
[Coloq.]
Dickens.
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English
Noun
setout (plural setouts)
- an outset
- (colloquial, dated) a display or spread
- 1854, Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 8:
- ‘You don’t hate Sissy, Tom?’
- ‘I hate to be obliged to call her Jupe. And she hates me,’ said Tom, moodily.
- ‘No, she does not, Tom, I am sure!’
- ‘She must,’ said Tom. ‘She must just hate and detest the whole set-out of us.
- 1854, Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 8: