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leotard - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

leotard (plural leotards)

• A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)
  • ✤ Tomorrow is the day. Marie makes her first trip out of this notebook and into the world. I’m off to buy a leotard.¹

Etymology

Named after French acrobat Jules Léotard (1838–1870).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈliː.ə.tɑːd/, /ˈlɪə.tɑːd/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• (General American) IPA: /ˈliː.ə.tɑːɹd/

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Footnotes

1. 1963 May, Gloria Steinem, “A Bunny’s Tale”, in Show Magazine ‎${}^{[1]}$, archived from the original on 4 October 2017, page 99: ↩

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