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KID GLOVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kid glove mean?
• KID GLOVE (noun)
The noun KID GLOVE has 1 sense:
1. a glove made of fine soft leather (as kidskin)
Familiarity information: KID GLOVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A glove made of fine soft leather (as kidskin)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
kid glove; suede glove
Hypernyms ("kid glove" is a kind of...):
glove (handwear: covers the hand and wrist)
Context examples
Beside his right hand a most formidable horn-handled, two-edged dagger lay upon the floor, and near it a black kid glove.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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