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woolenwear en · NOUN

Etymology

From woolen + -wear.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Clothing made out of wool.
    • It was the mother’s custom to wash daily every garment of the Jægar woolenwear that Sunrise wore. 1902 May 11, Helen Tufts, “Biographical Introduction”, in Whitman’s Ideal Democracy and Other Writings by Helena Born; with a Biography by the Editor, Helen Tufts, Boston, Mass.: […] [T]he Everett Press, page xxv:
    • Located near Paddy Bourke’s pub, this attractive shop features famous Galway crystal and an enormous amount of Irish handicrafts including Aran sweaters and woolenwear. 1995, Birnbaum’s 95 Ireland, HarperPerennial, →ISBN, page 149:
    • It is said that so distinctive was each stitch that the home of an unknown drowned sailor could be established from the stitch of his sweater. But it wasn’t just woolenwear that was distinctive in character. 2010, Bill Laws, “Field Fauna”, in The Field Guide to Fields: Hidden Treasures of Meadows, Prairies, and Pastures, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, →ISBN, page 125:

Synonyms

woolwear