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prisonwear

prisonwear noun: clothes to be worn by inmates of a prison.

prisonwear: clothes to be worn by inmates of a prison
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Noun

prisonwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothes to be worn by inmates of a prison.
    • Convicts in striped prisonwear collect trash by the roadside, watched over by their guards.2014, Roger Frankham, “USA”, in Bite Size World: Eating My Way Around the Planet, Cirencester: Mereo, →ISBN, part three (North America), page 181

Origin of prisonwear

From prison + -wear.

Questions about prisonwear

What does prisonwear mean?
Prisonwear means clothes to be worn by inmates of a prison.
What part of speech is prisonwear?
Prisonwear is a noun.

Words near prisonwear in the dictionary

  1. prisonment
  2. prisonments
  3. prisonous
  4. prisons
  5. prisonsful
  6. prisonwear
  7. prison–industrial complex
  8. prison–industrial complexes
  9. prisoptometer
  10. prisoptometers
  11. priss

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