ladywear

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Noun

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ladywear (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of ladieswear.
    • 2011, Cherie Priest, chapter 8, in Bloodshot, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 182:
      In ladywear, with full lady persona, she was a woman.
    • 2015, Lucy Inglis, Crow Mountain, Chicken House, →ISBN:
      ‘Afraid I don’t have much in the way of ladywear, and your dress is probably a bit . . . unnecessary here.’
    • 2019, Nina Bocci, Meet Me on Love Lane, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 39:
      “I’m really sorry about this, Charlotte. I do wish we were meeting under different circumstances,” Max apologized, carefully avoiding the ladywear as he restacked what I’d just shoved into the back to make it easier for me to remove everything later.