courtwear en · NOUN
Etymology
From court + -wear.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Clothing to be worn in a sports court.
In Between “courtwear” is a blend of cotton, polyester and Spandex that creates a layered look under skirts and tops.
1996 March 25, Susan Martin, “Tennis: Whites to brights”, in The Buffalo News, page C-8:Wimbledon will waive its white-only rule for the Olympic tennis next year. Karen Dacre serves up sizzling courtwear for colour converts
2011 June 20, “Tennis brights”, in Evening Standard, page 28:Sportswear looks continue to influence women's courtwear with wrapped or knife-pleated skirts, bolero tie-blouses worn over bandeau bras, and sweatery knits.
1977 March 7, Marilyn Thelen, “Sports is not only how you play the game but what you wear”, in The Christian Science Monitor, page B16:Basic Dress Thin courtwear for any lower-torso proportion problem: smoothly tailored shorts (left) with vertical pockets, a flat fly, no cuffs—nothing to break the line or create bulk below the waist.
1981, Bonnie August, Ellen Count, “Dress Thin to Win: Active Sportswear”, in The Complete Bonnie August’s Dress Thin System: 642 + Ways to Correct Figure Faults with Clothes, New York, N.Y.: Rawson, Wade Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 200:A few sporting fellows wore striped blazers and cream slacks, and a dozen women modelled flapper ensembles and courtwear from plus-fours-attired Ivan Sayer’s garment museum.
1997 September 30, Malcolm Parry, “In the guestbook at Duthie’s 40th birthday”, in The Vancouver Sun, volume 112, number 121, page B5:Durable lightness—that’s new Jantzen courtwear.
1969 May 26, Sports Illustrated, volume 30, number 21, page 92:“People are dressing more casual on a daily basis and they come to us looking for clean, classic athletic clothes that are comfortable,” says Andrea Huff, apparel marketing director for Reebok, which outfits [Venus] Williams in nightclub-worthy courtwear including silver shifts.
1998 November 15, Elaine Glusac, “The athletic aesthetic”, in Chicago Tribune:(Yet, ironically, many of the newer, less well-heeled players seem to be even more dedicated to white attire than do veteran players, and tennis’s arrivés are often offended by other hues of courtwear.)
1972 July 29, Sophy Burnham, “Tennis: A whole new ball game”, in Saturday Review, volume LV, number 31, page 46, column 1:
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(uncountable) Clothing to be worn in a court of law.
It was perhaps unchivalrous to complain when the first women Justices began to brighten their courtwear with what Time called “modish, attention-getting dickeys.”
1996, Bernard Schwartz, Decision: How the Supreme Court Decides Cases, New York, N.Y.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 20:Forty-five minutes later I walked into the courthouse in Braxton. […] White was dressed in a white turtleneck shirt adorned with three gold necklaces. That courtwear was a poor enough choice, but was boundlessly overshadowed by his coat.
1996, E. L. Wyrick, Power in the Blood, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 60:To fit in with the strictures of a European court ruling since the trial of two 10-year-old boys accused of killing three-year-old James Bulger, the judge and barristers, clerk and ushers had to dump their normal courtwear for lounge suits.
2002 April 26, Paul Cheston, “Most dispiriting trial”, in Evening Standard, page 4:People interviewed for the Paths to Justice survey were not asked about judges’ courtwear, but they gave their views anyway.
1999 November 22, Clare Dyer, “A very public wigging”, in The Guardian, page 11: