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bedwear

bedwear noun: clothing that is suitable be worn in bed.

Noun

bedwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing that is suitable be worn in bed.
    • In the schoolroom she would sit alone in a loving glow as frail clouds of wool grew through her clever fingers into wraps and misty bedwear for Lady Grizel's birthday or Christmas presents.1983, Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
    • Better to be thought chronically shy than to have landladies with duplicate keys sneaking in at night in their bedwear.2008, Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle
    Synonyms:
    nightwear, sleepwear

Synonyms of bedwear

Origin of bedwear

From bed + -wear.

Questions about bedwear

What does bedwear mean?
Bedwear means clothing that is suitable be worn in bed.
What part of speech is bedwear?
Bedwear is a noun.

Words near bedwear in the dictionary

  1. bedwarfs
  2. bedwarmer
  3. bedwarmers
  4. Bedwas
  5. Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen
  6. bedwear
  7. bedwell
  8. Bedwells
  9. bedwench
  10. bedwenches
  11. bedwet

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