woolwear

English

Etymology

From wool + -wear.

Pronunciation

Noun

woolwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing made out of wool.
    • 1929, Forest and Outdoors, 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, 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, →ISBN, page 81:
      The label has often collaborated with other designers, like Australian shoemaker Teva and American woolwear veteran Pendleton.
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