churchwear en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃ.wɛ(ə)ɹ/ (General-American)
- (US) audio
- /ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ.wɛə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From church + -wear.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Clothing intended to be worn in church.
The first blushes of Lamar’s aesthetic expansion came with the video for “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” in 2013. Clad in crisp white churchwear, Lamar frolicked with a congregation, first in a hearse and then in a wheat field, as he led a casket to a sun-drenched resting place.
2017 July 26, Doreen St. Félix, “The Autofictions of Kendrick Lamar”, in The New Yorker: