formalwear

English

Alternative forms

• formal wear

Etymology

From formal +‎ -wear.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

formalwear (uncountable)

1. Clothing suited to formal occasions
   • 2007 April 10, Claudia La Rocco, “Austerity Meets Agitation While the Night City Glitters”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     With their hair half up, and dressed demurely in black formalwear, they seemed like lost girls and conveyed little beyond a vague sense of urgency and dread; sure technicians all, they are not yet artists able to make their lashing limbs and inscrutable gestures mean something.

Translations

clothing suited to formal occasions

• Finnish: juhlavaatteet pl
• Latin: cēnātōria n pl

See also

• formalwear on Wikipedia.Wikipedia