Formalwear

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Clothing suited to formal occasions uncountable

    "With their hair half up, and dressed demurely in black formalwear, they seemed like lost girls and conveyed little beyond a vague sense of urgency and dread; sure technicians all, they are not yet artists able to make their lashing limbs and inscrutable gestures mean something."

  2. 2
    attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening wordnet

Synonyms

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evening clothesevening dresseveningwear

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"With their hair half up, and dressed demurely in black formalwear, they seemed like lost girls and conveyed little beyond a vague sense of urgency and dread; sure technicians all, they are not yet artists able to make their lashing limbs and inscrutable gestures mean something."

Etymology

From formal + -wear.

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