# suiting

Pronunciation: say "SOOT-ing" US /ˈsutɪŋ/, UK /ˈsuːtɪŋ/

## Noun

1. Cloth woven specifically for tailoring into suits, jackets, and similar garments.
   - Simple: Cloth used to make suits and other tailored clothes.
   - _The tailor draped the charcoal suiting over the mannequin to check how it fell._
   - _Fine suiting holds a crease well and resists wrinkling through a long day._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of suit. — present participle and gerund of suit
   - Simple: The -ing form of suit. Use it to name the state or describe a noun, but rarely after is or are.
   - _Suiting his speech to the young crowd, the mayor kept it short and funny._
   - _Country living is suiting them more than they ever expected._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/suiting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).