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kid glove, ˈkid-ˌglove
1. A glove made of kid-skin, lamb-skin, or other similar leather. with kid gloves, in a gentle, delicate, or gingerly manner.
1832Marryat N. Forster xxxii, A new pair of grey kid gloves. 1834W. Hull Hist. Glove Trade 69 Men and women's fine gloves, or those that pass in the shops under the denomination of kid-gloves, but which are really made from lamb-skins..dressed at Yeovil. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. iii. lviii. 410 The Americans who think that European politics are worked, to use the common phrase, ‘with kid gloves’.
2. attrib. as adj. Characterized by wearing kid-gloves; dainty or delicate in action or operation; avoiding real exertion or every-day work; free from roughness or harshness.
1856H. H. Dixon Post & Paddock vii. 115 He was, in fact, a mere kid-glove sportsman. 1888T. W. Higginson Women and Men 296 Anti-kid-glove literature is really no better than the kid-glove literature at which it affects to protest. 1892Zangwill Bow Mystery 81, I don't like your kid glove philanthropists meddling in matters they don't understand.
Hence ˈkid-ˌglove v. trans., to cover (the hands) with kid-gloves. ˈkid-ˌgloved a., wearing kid-gloves; also fig., refined, dainty, delicate, etc.
1848Clough Bothie v. 117 Dancing and pressing the fingers kid-gloved of a Lady Maria. 1859Sala Gas-light & D. xxiv. 276 You can descry a kid-gloved hand, with rings outside the glove. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. (1887) 11 The richer part of the community that..kid-glove their hands. 1899Stead in Daily News 19 July 5/5 He was always somewhat of a kid-gloved gentleman. |