a. and sb. [f. prec. + -AL.] A. adj. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, exuviæ. In quots. transf. and fig. † B. sb. pl. Things stripped off; spoils.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., II. 72. Being cled with the exuvials, and Trophees of enemies.
1839. Thackeray, Catharine, i. The load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he [the old clothes man] staggers.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, Shaks., Wks. (Bohn), I. 364. In the poet’s mind, the fact has … lost all that is exuvial.
