Diaperwear

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Diapers (as a category of clothing); different types of diapers, such as disposables or cloth diapers, considered collectively. Canada, US, rare, uncountable

    "Johan Mikkelsen, president of Lifa, a Norwegian company now owned by Helly-Hansen, first developed the fiber for use in diaperwear. It then occurred to him, an avid cross-country skier, that polypropylene's non-absorbent yet breathable characteristics would be ideal for long underwear in active sports."

Synonyms

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nappywear

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"Johan Mikkelsen, president of Lifa, a Norwegian company now owned by Helly-Hansen, first developed the fiber for use in diaperwear. It then occurred to him, an avid cross-country skier, that polypropylene's non-absorbent yet breathable characteristics would be ideal for long underwear in active sports."

Etymology

From diaper + -wear (“used to form nouns denoting clothing”).

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