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Aerial (medicine) and threadbare (iou)


Aerial (medicine)


aerial


Something that is found in or takes place in the air.


threadbare (iou)



threadbare adjective. LME.
[from THREAD noun + BARE adjective.]
(Of cloth) so worn that the nap is lost and the threads of the warp and weft are visible; (of a garment etc.) made from threadbare cloth, worn-out, shabby. LME.
E. Waugh A..shabby saloon car, upholstered in threadbare plush. I. Murdoch The fine but..threadbare Shiraz rug.
b. Of a person: wearing threadbare clothes; shabby, seedy; impecunious. Now rare or obsolete. L16.
fig. Having lost effect, freshness, or force through overuse; trite from constant repetition; commonplace, hackneyed. L16.
Chesterfield The trite, threadbare jokes of those who set up for wit without having any. Sir W. Scott This quotation is rather threadbare.
threadbareness noun M16.