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outdoorwear en · NOUN

Etymology

From outdoor + -wear.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Clothing to be worn outdoors.
   • If you don’t, you could wander for days among the beautifully laminated recurve bows and delicately fletched arrows, touch covetously the gorgeous Austrian outdoorwear or the delightfully practical British rainwear, bog down in the latest fishing tackle and golf gear, get carried away by a herd of snowmobiles, be tranquilized by the glitter of athletic trophies, work your way through the bowling, skin diving and gym equipment to-the wrestling and judo displays, and miss camping altogether. 1968 May, Edith Shedd, “Report to Campers”, in Better Camping, volume 9, number 5, page 17:
   • Its options include […] Humble Apparel, a purveyor of outdoorwear that donates 7 percent of profits to Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness conservation efforts. 2017 May 25, Laine Bergeson, “Can MOA Kindness store change shopping for good?”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVI, number 51, pages E1 and E10:
   • She’s [Marcella Backland from Marcella] following in the tradition of TV detectives in signature outdoorwear – [John] Luther (Idris Elba) was known for his grey tweed coat, in Broadchurch, Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) worked a practical orange North Face worn over a suit, while The Killing’s Sarah Lund made the Gudrun & Gudrun jumper famous. 2016 April 5, Susannah Butter, “Parkas and Peckham – London gets its Noir”, in Evening Standard, page 21:

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