Chefwear
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Clothing to be worn by chefs. uncountable
"When I dropped by to see him recently, passing first through his stylishly sparse sixty-five-seat dining room, past his four sommeliers – count them, four – through a kitchen staffed by serious- looking young Americans in buttoned-up Bragard jackets with the Veritas logo stitched on their breasts and chefwear MC Hammer pants, down a flight of stairs, I found him wrapping a howitzer-sized log of foie gras in cheesecloth."
Example
More examples"When I dropped by to see him recently, passing first through his stylishly sparse sixty-five-seat dining room, past his four sommeliers – count them, four – through a kitchen staffed by serious- looking young Americans in buttoned-up Bragard jackets with the Veritas logo stitched on their breasts and chefwear MC Hammer pants, down a flight of stairs, I found him wrapping a howitzer-sized log of foie gras in cheesecloth."
Etymology
From chef + -wear. Piecewise doublet of headwear.
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