Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Attire, such as evening gowns and tuxedos, for wear on formal occasions.
Wiktionary
- n. Clothing suited to formal occasions
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening.
WordNet 3.0
- n. attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening
Etymologies
- formal + wear (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Study the vintage style of designer Ralph Lauren, who varies his formalwear by wearing a tuxedo jacket with faded jeans and scuffed cowboy boots.”
“Interlaid with unbearably long pauses, this turned out to be three rounds: a talent show, a swimwear round, and a formalwear round with interviews.”
“While Web shopping makes many purchases easy, you still need to go to the store to shop for jeans, blazers and your most special formalwear.”
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“I spent my entire childhood being reassured by anthropomorphic animated figures that, as long as I spent enough time reading, I would eventually wander into a castle and find myself in a relationship with someone who looked like Chewbacca in formalwear.”
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“Trademarks: Necktie outside the sweater; formalwear with a down vest”
“The brand encourages men to wear slippers with casual clothes as well as formalwear.”
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“High-strung reporters ordering formalwear online is inherently risky, and on the day before the gowns were due to arrive last week, the system went haywire.”
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“He was wearing his signature formalwear - shades, a hooded sweatshirt and running shoes - and mulling a move west from the east coast.”
“After college, Dawn spent 18 years working at a local formalwear company, outfitting everyone from bridegrooms to high school madrigal singers.”
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“At the third dream-level, DiCaprio and Murphy find themselves skiing in naff white military snowsuit outfits? much less cool than the formalwear they modelled in the hotel? towards a perfunctorily imagined Dr Evil-style mountainside HQ.”
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