woolwear

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English

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Etymology

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From wool +‎ -wear.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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woolwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing made out of wool.
    • 1929, Forest and Outdoors[1], volume 29, page 552:
      If you are clad in soft, warm, absorbent woolwear designed for treedom of action there will be no discomfort to mar your thrill when you bag the buck of the season.
    • 1973, Winifred Nowottny -, Hopkins's Language of Prayer & Praise[2], page 9:
      And so one may re-read 'Epithalamion', observing that to put off bleached linen and woven woolwear and twiny boots is (even if comic) to shuffle off this mortal coil []
    • 2018 April 1, Cristian Bonetto, Lonely Planet Pocket Copenhagen[3], →ISBN, page 81:
      The label has often collaborated with other designers, like Australian shoemaker Teva and American woolwear veteran Pendleton.

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