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try on

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English

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A girl trying on a lion costume before a mirror

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Verb

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try on (third-person singular simple presenttries on,present participletrying on,simple past and past participletried on)

(transitive) Totest thelook orfit of (agarment) bywearing it.
Coordinate term:try out
- c. 1601,Gervase Markham,The Dumb Knight, London: John Bache, 1608, Act III,^[1]
  Fore God it is a delicate fine suite, rich stuffe, rare worke, and of the newest fashion; nay if the Senats businesse were neuer so hasty, I will stay totry iton, come, help good wenches helpe, so there, there there.
- 1763,Arthur Murphy,The Citizen‎^[2], London: G. Kearsly, act II, scene 1, page27:
  Who is this fellow, Corinna? Some journeyman taylor, I suppose, who chuses totry on the gentleman’s cloaths before he carries them home—
- 1868,Louisa May Alcott, chapter 19, inLittle Women‎^[3]:
  […] Amytried on the blue ring with a delighted face and a firm resolve to earn it.
- 1929,Thomas Wolfe,Look Homeward, Angel‎^[4], New York: Scribner, Part Two, Chapter 17, p. 188:
  “It would be a pity to throw away a good pair of shoes,” she said. “Try ’emon, boy.”
(transitive, slang) To attempt; to undertake.
Coordinate terms:try,try out
- 1860 December –1861 August,Charles Dickens, chapter XXV, inGreat Expectations […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861,→OCLC:
  “He says, and gives it out publicly, “I want to see the man who’ll rob me.” Lord bless you, I have heard him, a hundred times, if I have heard him once, say to regular cracksmen in our front office, “You know where I live; now, no bolt is ever drawn there; why don’t you do a stroke of business with me? Come; can’t I tempt you?” Not a man of them, sir, would be bold enough totry iton, for love or money.”
- 1953,Mary Renault, chapter 2, inThe Charioteer‎^[5], New York: Pantheon, published1959, page26:
  He could have feigned noncomprehension, but with Lanyon one didn’ttry anythingon.