Words at Play : The Real History Behind 10 Game of Thrones Words
The last thing you want to do if you're in the capital city of Kings Landing is get caught walking around in your smallclothes.
If you guessed that smallclothes is a term for underwear, you are quite right.
While it might be a little risky to swap out the word smallclothes for underwear in real life, you wouldn't be entirely wrong to do so. Smallclothes has been used to refer to underclothes since the 17th century – though not commonly in more recent years.
So go ahead and show off your use of smallclothes (though not, perhaps, your actual smallclothes) with pride.
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