quad suit
English
Noun
quad suit (plural quad suits)
- (fandom slang) A type of fursuit for walking on all fours.
- 2010, Chris Seabrook, “It Gives me Thunder”: Reflections on “Becoming Fur”, Library and Archives Canada, page 150:
- Figure 42: “Quad Suits”
- 2014, Barton Grover Howe, The Beach is Back: A Surfland Mystery, Flying Starfish Press, →ISBN:
- It was what costumers call a “quad suit,” a costume in which the performer runs around on all fours. […] Used by street performers and in stage-shows, quad-suit performers have an uncanny knack for looking like the real thing, albeit for short periods of time.
- 2015, Nyareon, “The Furry Fandom”, in Furries Among Us: Essays on Furries by the Most Prominent Members of Fandom, Thurston Howl Publications, →ISBN, page 10:
- Quadsuits are specially made for the purpose of wearing and walking on all fours; […].
- 2017, Torie E. Lucas, “Wolves, Dragons, and Ponies… Oh My!”: Fursonas and Stigmatization in the “Human” World, thesis submitted to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, page 70:
- Charlie also discussed his desire for a quad suit. Quad suits further expand on animalistic characteristics by forcing the wearer to hunch over and simulate the act of walking on four legs.
- 2020, Cheralyn Lambeth, Introduction to Puppetry Arts, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Even though this character has four legs, costumes such as this can be operated by a single performer with the use of arm extensions as in quadsuits.
- 2021, Jessica Ruth Austin, Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 141:
- […] the rarer ‘quad suit’ made for the purpose of being able to walk on all fours.
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