• Formalwear

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    Origin

    formal + -wear

    Full definition of formalwear

    Noun

    formalwear

    (uncountable)
    1. Clothing suited to formal occasions
      • April 10, 2007, Claudia La Rocco, Austerity Meets Agitation While the Night City Glitters, 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.
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