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gardenwear

gardenwear noun: clothing to be worn for gardening.

Noun

gardenwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing to be worn for gardening.
    • Here are ingenious tools, lovely vases, double-duty planters, practical and stylish gardenwear—in short, all the newest and best for up-to-the-minute gardeners.1955 April, Holiday, volume 17, number 4, page 147
    • “My favorite gardenwear,” she replies, “is an old pair of Land’s^([sic]) End pants called stringalongs.[…]”1996, Robin Chotzinoff, People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 114

Examples of gardenwear in a sentence

  • Instead, try blending into the ground: Stick with beige or brown as your stock shades for gardenwear.2002, Jerry Baker, Backyard Problem Solver: 2,168 Natural Solutions for Growing Great Grass, Super Shrubs, Bright Bulbs, Perfect...
  • My usual summer gardenwear is baggy pants, a long-sleeved baggy shirt, knee-high boots and gloves.2009 June 20, Renee Studebaker, “So there are less toxic mosquito repellents? OK, I’ll bite”, in Austin American-Statesman, page F10:
  • Busybee Clothing is a family business who manufacture industrial clothing and supply gardenwear and protective workwear.2014 October 8, St Helens Reporter, page 22:

Origin of gardenwear

From garden + -wear.

Questions about gardenwear

What does gardenwear mean?
Gardenwear means clothing to be worn for gardening.
How do you use gardenwear in a sentence?
Instead, try blending into the ground: Stick with beige or brown as your stock shades for gardenwear.
What part of speech is gardenwear?
Gardenwear is a noun.

Words near gardenwear in the dictionary

  1. gardensful
  2. Gardenvale
  3. gardenward
  4. gardenwards
  5. gardenware
  6. gardenwear
  7. gardenwise
  8. gardenwork
  9. gardeny
  10. garderobe
  11. garderobes

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