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churchwear

UK/ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ.wɛə//ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ.wɛ(ə)ɹ/

churchwear noun: clothing intended to be worn in church.

Noun

churchwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing intended to be worn in church.
    • The first blushes of Lamar’s aesthetic expansion came with the video for “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” in 2013. Clad in crisp white churchwear, Lamar frolicked with a congregation, first in a hearse and then in a wheat field, as he led a casket to a sun-drenched resting place.2017 July 26, Doreen St. Félix, “The Autofictions of Kendrick Lamar”, in The New Yorker

Origin of churchwear

From church + -wear.

Questions about churchwear

What does churchwear mean?
Churchwear means clothing intended to be worn in church.
What part of speech is churchwear?
Churchwear is a noun.
How do you pronounce churchwear?
Churchwear is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ.wɛə/ (UK).

Words near churchwear in the dictionary

  1. churchwardenship
  2. churchwardenships
  3. churchwards
  4. churchway
  5. churchways
  6. churchwear
  7. Churchwell
  8. Churchwells
  9. churchwide
  10. churchwise
  11. churchwoman

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