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setout
[ set-out ]
noun
- preparations, especially for beginning a journey.
- start or outset.
- things set or laid out for use or display, as food on a table.
- getup or outfit.
- an entertaining event.
Word History and Origins
Origin of setout1
Example Sentences
“I haven’t a single finger bowl, but this is a setout that will last me all my days, Hannah says.”
A hot Labor Day weekend in the summer of 1959, and four friends setout on an expedition to find the body of a missing boy.
Andrè and Julienne had long loved each other, and congeniality of disposition, parity of years, and health and strength, as well as a tolerably comfortable setout in the world, seemed to promise for them many years of happiness.
"I haven't a single finger bowl, but this is a setout that will last me all my days, Hannah says."
As soon as the victims proved favourable they all setout, the Arcadians following with the rest.
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