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armywear en · NOUN

Etymology

From army + -wear.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Clothing to be worn by the army.
    • Invented by Basque peasants, this brimless wool felt cap has been adopted by many a chic figure, becoming ridiculously rich with references: armywear; stereotypical old Frenchmen; 1920s film directors; 1950s schoolgirls; beatniks, renegades. 2007, Kira Jolliffe, Bay Garnett, The Cheap Date Guide to Style, Universe Publishing, published 2008, →ISBN, page 53:
    • To coordinate with your faux-armywear, Keds offers functional camouflage. 2001 June 25, “9 Sport and Tech Essentials”, in New York, page 74:
    • DETECTIVES are probing a raid on a shop in High Street, Cleethorpes, which sells surplus armywear. 1983 August 25, “Shop cash box stolen”, in Grimsby Evening Telegraph, page nine:
    • We buy/sell second-hand furniture/baby equipment, bric-a-brac, curios, models, armywear and bits and pieces. 1997 January 31, The Staines Informer, 23rd year, number 5, page 78:
    • They’d gone from baggy armywear for their first album to sassy for the second, then mumsy chic for the recent one: lots of long coats. 2019, Malcolm McLean, Freak Like Me: Confessions of a 90s Pop Groupie, RedDoor, →ISBN, page 43: