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hand-me-downs

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Abel is a red-headed giant, so Eli wears a lot of his hand-me-downs.

And how badly I felt when the girls found out they were hand-me-downs.

Yes, Miss Upton said he turned up his nose at hand-me-downs, so she had to jest brace up and git 'em new.

This summer both had set their hearts on really-truly party clothes, not hand-me-downs.

Their clothes were hand-me-downs from Noah's time, and every one of them was outraging some convention or other.

It has made me tender toward poor children who have to wear hand-me-downs.

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On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hand-me-downs, such as: accouterment, apparel, array, caparison, civvies, and costume.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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