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yachtwear

yachtwear noun: clothing to be worn on a yacht.

Noun

yachtwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing to be worn on a yacht.
    • They were wearing expensive wet gear in matching buff and pale blue, of the type international yachtwear designers do not realize will make the wearer invisible in five seconds if he falls overboard.1994, Sam Llewellyn, Maelstrom, Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 158–159
    • There is a small range of shops on St Mary’s; apart from Steve the butcher and Mumfords, there’s a chemist in Hugh Town, a Post Office, the Co-op stores, a newly opened delicatessen and four clothes shops, mostly selling designer yachtwear; but, strangely for such a seafaring community, there’s no...2008, Nigel Farrell, An Island Parish: A Summer on Scilly, Headline, →ISBN, page 147

Origin of yachtwear

From yacht + -wear.

Questions about yachtwear

What does yachtwear mean?
Yachtwear means clothing to be worn on a yacht.
What part of speech is yachtwear?
Yachtwear is a noun.

Words near yachtwear in the dictionary

  1. yachtspeople
  2. yachtsperson
  3. yachtspersons
  4. yachtswoman
  5. yachtswomen
  6. yachtwear
  7. yachty
  8. yack
  9. yack on
  10. Yackandandah
  11. Yackarabul

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