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diaperwear

diaperwear noun: diapers (as a category of clothing); different types of diapers, such as disposables or cloth diapers, considered collectively.

Noun

diaperwear (uncountable)

  1. (Canada, US, rare) Diapers (as a category of clothing); different types of diapers, such as disposables or cloth diapers, considered collectively.
    • Johan Mikkelsen, president of Lifa, a Norwegian company now owned by Helly-Hansen, first developed the fiber for use in diaperwear. It then occurred to him, an avid cross-country skier, that polypropylene's non-absorbent yet breathable characteristics would be ideal for long underwear in active...1986, “Laurels & Lemons”, in Dick Needham, editor, compiled by Joana Jebsen, Ski Magazine, volume 50, number 5, Times Mirror Company, →ISSN, Polypropylene, page 138
    • Diaperwear
      Deluxe Pre-Fold 100% Cotton Diapers Flannel Inner & Outer1991, E–The Environmental Magazine, Earth Action Network, page 86
    Synonyms:
    nappywear

Examples of diaperwear in a sentence

  • Johan Mikkelsen, president of Lifa, a Norwegian company now owned by Helly-Hansen, first developed the fiber for use in diaperwear.1986, “Laurels & Lemons”, in Dick Needham, editor, compiled by Joana Jebsen, Ski Magazine, volume 50, number 5, Times Mirror Company...
  • Diaperwear that can't help but appeal to its youngest customers.2004, Barbara Kasser, Frank Fiore, 2005 Online Shopping Directory For Dummies, Wiley, →ISBN, page 140:
  • And I'm totally not ready for any Gandhiesque weaving of my own diaperwear.2012, Kathryn Blume, Dancing to the Beat of the Great Green Heart, KBI Press, →ISBN, page 65:

Synonyms of diaperwear

Origin of diaperwear

From diaper + -wear (“used to form nouns denoting clothing”).

Questions about diaperwear

What does diaperwear mean?
Diaperwear means diapers (as a category of clothing); different types of diapers, such as disposables or cloth diapers, considered collectively.
How do you use diaperwear in a sentence?
Johan Mikkelsen, president of Lifa, a Norwegian company now owned by Helly-Hansen, first developed the fiber for use in diaperwear.
What part of speech is diaperwear?
Diaperwear is a noun.

Words near diaperwear in the dictionary

  1. diapersuit
  2. diapersuits
  3. diapertent
  4. diapertents
  5. diaperturate
  6. diaperwear
  7. diaperwhore
  8. diaperwhores
  9. diaperwork
  10. diapery
  11. diaphagetic

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