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formal wear

formal wear is the alternative spelling of formalwear.

Meaning of formalwear

Noun

formalwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing suited to formal occasions
    • With their hair half up, and dressed demurely in black formalwear, they seemed like lost girls and conveyed little beyond a vague sense of urgency and dread; sure technicians all, they are not yet artists able to make their lashing limbs and inscrutable gestures mean something.2007 April 10, Claudia La Rocco, “Austerity Meets Agitation While the Night City Glitters”, in New York Times

Questions about formal wear

What is formal wear the alternative spelling of?
Formal wear is the alternative spelling of formalwear.

Words near formal wear in the dictionary

  1. formal swaps
  2. formal system
  3. formal systems
  4. formal validities
  5. formal validity
  6. formal wear
  7. formalazine
  8. formaldehyde
  9. formaldehydes
  10. formaldehydesulphoxylate
  11. formaldehydesulphoxylates

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