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birthday suit (n.)
first attested 1730s, but probably much older. The notion is the suit of clothes one was born in, i.e., no clothes at all. Compare Middle English
mother naked
"naked as the day one was born;" Middle Dutch
moeder naect
, German
mutternackt
.