[f. the verbal phrase to throw over (THROW v. 45).] The act or result of throwing over, in various senses; also, concr., a wrap to throw over the shoulders; a loose outer garment.
1819. Hermit in London, III. 212. They had practised what they technically termed a throw over.
1852. Lewis, Lett. (1870), 257. The complete and definitive throw over both of Protection and local burdens must loosen the hold of the Government upon the agricultural body.
1902. O’Conor Sloane, Stand. Electr. Dict., App., Throw-Over Stitch, a double throw knife switch designed to connect a three wire system in a building either to a three wire street main or to a single source on the two wire system.
1907. Ladies’ Field, 12 Jan., 3/2. White Foxaline long Stole or Throwover.
1909. Westm. Gaz., 3 April, 15/1. The nearest approach we have to the Marie Antoinette ‘throw-over’—it cannot be called a tea gown…—is the Japanese kimono. Ibid., 16 Oct., 15/1. The drapery … has grown in its proportions till now it resembles a shawl, and nothing could be more convenient as a throw-over, either for day or evening purposes.
