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outdoorwear

outdoorwear noun: clothing to be worn outdoors.

Noun

outdoorwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing to be worn outdoors.
    • If you don’t, you could wander for days among the beautifully laminated recurve bows and delicately fletched arrows, touch covetously the gorgeous Austrian outdoorwear or the delightfully practical British rainwear, bog down in the latest fishing tackle and golf gear, get carried away by a herd of...1968 May, Edith Shedd, “Report to Campers”, in Better Camping, volume 9, number 5, page 17
    • She’s [Marcella Backland from Marcella] following in the tradition of TV detectives in signature outdoorwear – [John] Luther (Idris Elba) was known for his grey tweed coat, in Broadchurch, Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) worked a practical orange North Face worn over a suit, while The Killing’s Sarah...2016 April 5, Susannah Butter, “Parkas and Peckham – London gets its Noir”, in Evening Standard, page 21

Forms of outdoorwear

alternative formoutdoor wear
alternative formoutdoor-wear

Origin of outdoorwear

From outdoor + -wear.

Questions about outdoorwear

What does outdoorwear mean?
Outdoorwear means clothing to be worn outdoors.
What part of speech is outdoorwear?
Outdoorwear is a noun.

Words near outdoorwear in the dictionary

  1. outdoorspersons
  2. outdoorswoman
  3. outdoorswomanship
  4. outdoorswomen
  5. outdoorsy
  6. outdoorwear
  7. outdraft
  8. outdrafts
  9. outdrag
  10. outdragged
  11. outdragging

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