hand-me-down

[ hand-mee-doun, han- ]

/ ˈhænd miˌdaʊn, ˈhæn- /

an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.: The younger children wore the hand-me-downs of the older ones.

any item not new that is or can be used again: Our office furniture was a collection of hand-me-downs.

passed along for further use by others: some hand-me-down clothes from my older brother.

borrowed or adapted from other sources; derivative: a street full of hand-me-down architecture.

Origin of hand-me-down

First recorded in 1870–75

The heaps of gifted and hand-me-down pink frilly clothes and accessories grew far faster than we were able to sort and store them.

Why I Finally Let My Girls Be Girly |Andy Hinds |May 17, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
You might not have been so cheap this year and accepted a hand-me-down (I mean ALL they want is the candy anyhow).

Ding Dong, You Have Lice |Kent Sepkowitz |October 31, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
For decades, collar-buttons have been on the hand-me-down shelves of humor; it is a mistake in the catalogue.

Seventeen |Booth Tarkington
You're so bloody sane and smug you with your secondhand suit and hand-me-down knowledge!

The Short Life |Francis Donovan

The Socialist cook exchanged his greasy dungarees for a pair of hand-me-down creaseless serge pants.

The Flying Bo'sun |Arthur Mason
That's the flat truth, and I'd like to shake your Jake Kasker out of his suit of hand-me-down clothing.

Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls |Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)
These hand-me-down religions seldom fit, and professional theology, it seems to me, is mostly a dealing in ol' clo'.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 |Elbert Hubbard

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