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adultwear

adultwear noun: clothing for adults.

Noun

adultwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing for adults.
    • It is questioned if related separates sales in the boyswear department can show the increase in sales that has been exhibited by adultwear.1944, Textile Technology Digest
    • “However, since it’s hard to differentiate clothing for this group from other adultwear, no strict standards for flame retardant clothing for older adults have been set yet,” the specialist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, The Texas A&M University System, said.1975 September 13, “Flame Retardant Clothing for Elderly”, in The Cotton Gin and Oil Mill Press, volume 76, number 19, page 21

Examples of adultwear in a sentence

  • Estella stocks baby clothes from designers who also do adultwear – from Three Dots, Antik Batik, and Judith Lacroix, among others.2003, Shopping in New York, Insight Guides, →ISBN, page 78:
  • The brown tonalities that were favoured in 1880s adultwear were also frequently seen in Jumeau dolls.2004, Juliette Peers, The Fashion Doll: From Bébé Jumeau to Barbie, Oxford, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Berg, →ISBN, page 79:
  • Arguably, in an age before childrenswear comprised scaled-down versions of ‘adultwear’, they [shorts] helped children to think and behave like children.2011, Josh Sims, Icons of Men’s Style, Laurence King Publishing, →ISBN, page 073:

Forms of adultwear

alternative formadultswear

Origin of adultwear

From adult + -wear.

Questions about adultwear

What does adultwear mean?
Adultwear means clothing for adults.
How do you use adultwear in a sentence?
Estella stocks baby clothes from designers who also do adultwear – from Three Dots, Antik Batik, and Judith Lacroix, among others.
What part of speech is adultwear?
Adultwear is a noun.

Words near adultwear in the dictionary

  1. adults
  2. adults in the room
  3. adultship
  4. adultspeak
  5. adultswear
  6. adultwear
  7. adulty
  8. adumber
  9. adumbered
  10. adumbering
  11. adumbers

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