concept
"The costume of Adam"
costume of Adam
also: костюм Адама
A stock 19th-century euphemism for total nakedness, alluding to the Biblical Adam's nakedness before the Fall (Genesis 2-3); used for comic bathos rather than serious religious resonance.
Reading notes
- A Daughter of Albion §36 the costume of Adam
A stock euphemism for total nakedness, alluding to the Biblical Adam before the Fall (Genesis 2-3).