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bathwear

bathwear noun: clothing to be worn after bathing.

Noun

bathwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing to be worn after bathing.
    • For the dedicated couple, there are match-mate sets of casual clothing ranging from terry cloth bathwear to warm-up shirts.1978, Peter Davison, Rolf Meyersohn, Edward Shils, editors, Literary Taste, Culture and Mass Communication, volume 9 (Uses of Literacy; Media), Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey; Teaneck, N.J.: Somerset...
    • My father driving me to school in a bathrobe, like bathwear has suddenly come into fashion or something, that’s bizarre.2006, Olivia Birdsall, Notes on a Near-Life Experience, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 107

Origin of bathwear

From bath + -wear.

Questions about bathwear

What does bathwear mean?
Bathwear means clothing to be worn after bathing.
What part of speech is bathwear?
Bathwear is a noun.

Words near bathwear in the dictionary

  1. bathwards
  2. bathware
  3. bathwater
  4. bathwaters
  5. bathwatery
  6. bathwear
  7. bathy
  8. bathy-
  9. bathyal
  10. bathyal zone
  11. bathyal zones

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