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festivalwear

festivalwear noun: clothing intended to be worn at a festival.

Noun

festivalwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing intended to be worn at a festival.
    • What follows, as in many Attic plays, is a series of declamatory speeches, occasionally broken up with snatches of dialogue and the songs and dances of the chorus of foreign women, here costumed by Normandy Sherwood in flouncy, flowery festivalwear – even the male singers.2015 September 18, Alexis Soloski, “Iphigenia in Aulis review – an epic reinvented in flowery festivalwear”, in The Guardian

Origin of festivalwear

From festival + -wear.

Questions about festivalwear

What does festivalwear mean?
Festivalwear means clothing intended to be worn at a festival.
What part of speech is festivalwear?
Festivalwear is a noun.

Words near festivalwear in the dictionary

  1. festivalized
  2. festivalizes
  3. festivalizing
  4. festivally
  5. festivals
  6. festivalwear
  7. festive
  8. festive season
  9. festive seasons
  10. festively
  11. festiveness

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