Prisonwear

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Clothes to be worn by inmates of a prison. uncountable

    "Convicts in striped prisonwear collect trash by the roadside, watched over by their guards."

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"Convicts in striped prisonwear collect trash by the roadside, watched over by their guards."

Etymology

From prison + -wear.

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