setout

See also: set out

English

Etymology

set +‎ out

Noun

setout (plural setouts)

1. an outset
2. (colloquial, dated) a display or spread
   • 1854, Charles Dickens, “chapter 8”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:

     ‘You don’t hate Sissy, Tom?’
     ‘I hate to be obliged to call her Jupe. And she hates me,’ said Tom, moodily.
     ‘No, she does not, Tom, I am sure!’
     ‘She must,’ said Tom. ‘She must just hate and detest the whole set-out of us.

See also

• set out

Anagrams

• Stoute, Tetsuo, outset