stormwear
stormwear noun: clothing worn as protection from a storm.
Noun
stormwear (uncountable)
- Clothing worn as protection from a storm.
- Armed with some manuals, a pocket recorder, and some standard speech-form and folkway tapes, he rapidly purchased thin clothing, stormwear, writing implements, further recording tools, lugbags, and other personal gear.1967, David I[rvine] Masson, “Traveler’s Rest”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Voyagers in Time: Twelve Stories of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published 1970, page 178
- As the guests started bundling into their stormwear and trooping out into the snow, firecrackers and gunshots could be heard in the distance.1997, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Tailed a Thief, Headline, →ISBN, page 55
Origin of stormwear
From storm + -wear.
Questions about stormwear
- What does stormwear mean?
- Stormwear means clothing worn as protection from a storm.
- What part of speech is stormwear?
- Stormwear is a noun.
Words near stormwear in the dictionary
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