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travelwear

travelwear noun: clothing to be worn for travel.

Noun

travelwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing to be worn for travel.
    • Simplicity is the keynote of children’s travelwear, with cool, comfortable, lightweight wash-and-wear clothing and jackets and sweaters for changes of climate.1964, Childcraft: The How and Why Library (You and Your Child; volume 14), Chicago, Ill.: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, →LCCN, page 426
    • Casher could see it, even through the bulk of the travelwear.1965, Cordwainer Smith [pen name; Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger], “On the Storm Planet”, in Robert Silverberg, Martin H[arry] Greenberg, compilers, The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction...

Examples of travelwear in a sentence

  • During the summer, light cotton pants are the most appropriate travelwear and are a good option for getting by cathedral dress codes.1998, Hsiao-Yun Chu, Ian Z. Pervil, editors, Let’s Go: Rome (Let’s Go Publications), Macmillan, →ISBN, page 54:
  • A mainstay of activewear, these fabrics are also making their way into travelwear and streetwear.2010, Evelyn L. Brannon, Fashion Forecasting, New York, N.Y.: Fairchild Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 200:

Origin of travelwear

From travel + -wear.

Questions about travelwear

What does travelwear mean?
Travelwear means clothing to be worn for travel.
How do you use travelwear in a sentence?
During the summer, light cotton pants are the most appropriate travelwear and are a good option for getting by cathedral dress codes.
What part of speech is travelwear?
Travelwear is a noun.

Words near travelwear in the dictionary

  1. traveltime curve
  2. traveltime curves
  3. traveltimes
  4. travelway
  5. travelways
  6. travelwear
  7. travelworn
  8. Travemünde
  9. Traver
  10. travers
  11. Traversa

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