I had not myself seen it, but Ezekiel, who had witnessed a considerable portion of it before making his protest at its first performance, had particularly deplored the abbreviated costumes of most of the female dancers.
Henry Howarth Bashford, Augustus Carp, Esq.
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Merriam-Webster
— made shorter or briefer
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Macmillan
— shorter because some parts have been removed
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Collins
— made into a shorter form
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Other Word Forms
abbreviate
abbreviates
abbreviating
Usage
1 use of ‘abbreviated’ in Augustus Carp, Esq., by Henry Howarth Bashford