blackouts
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- (military, slang, historical) Long, dark-coloured underwear worn by the WAAF in winter.
- Coordinate term: twilights
- 1995, Beryl E. Escott, Our Wartime Days: The WAAF in World War 2, page 35:
- […] her blackouts. When the Officer inspected everything went well. The only thing was that two of our WAAF were not wearing any knickers at all!
- 2011 December 13, Peter Liddle, Captured Memories, 1930–1945: Across the Threshold of War: The Thirties and the War[1], Casemate Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- We had what were called the ‘blackouts’ and ‘twilights’. The blackouts were a dark sort of long-legged knickers, dark wintry ones, and the twilights were a lighter blue in a sort of Celanese material.
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