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chefwear

chefwear noun: clothing to be worn by chefs.

chefwear: clothing to be worn by chefs
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Noun

chefwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing to be worn by chefs.
    • When I dropped by to see him recently, passing first through his stylishly sparse sixty-five-seat dining room, past his four sommeliers – count them, four – through a kitchen staffed by serious- looking young Americans in buttoned-up Bragard jackets with the Veritas logo stitched on their breasts...2000, Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 257–258
    • Emerilware and cutlery, cookbooks, specialty food products, chefwear, and more2003, Emeril Lagasse, From Emeril’s Kitchens: Favorite Recipes from Emeril’s Restaurants, William Morrow, →ISBN

Examples of chefwear in a sentence

  • There has been, however, something of an apron revival—modern chefwear catalogs feature clogs, chef’s pants, and serious aprons.2006, Bonny Wolf, Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press...
  • A smart City branch of the established Soho business, specialising in chefwear and footwear.2013, Jenny Linford, Food Lovers’ London, →ISBN, page 341:
  • Meanwhile, I shucked my chefwear long enough to do two things.2014, Shelley Costa, Basil Instinct, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 160:
  • One number directly alluded to that show’s “Butter and Egg Man,” with three men in chefwear vying for the attention of a female singer.2015, Brian Seibert, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 531:

Origin of chefwear

From chef + -wear. Piecewise doublet of headwear.

Questions about chefwear

What does chefwear mean?
Chefwear means clothing to be worn by chefs.
How do you use chefwear in a sentence?
There has been, however, something of an apron revival—modern chefwear catalogs feature clogs, chef’s pants, and serious aprons.
What part of speech is chefwear?
Chefwear is a noun.

Words near chefwear in the dictionary

  1. cheftender
  2. cheftenders
  3. chefware
  4. chefwatcher
  5. chefwatchers
  6. chefwear
  7. Cheget
  8. Cheggers
  9. cheggie
  10. cheggies
  11. chegoe

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