bathwear
nounEtymology From bath + -wear.
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Clothing to be worn after bathing.
- For the dedicated couple, there are match-mate sets of casual clothing ranging from terry cloth bathwear to warm-up shirts.1978, Peter Davison, Rolf Meyersohn, Edward Shils, editors, Literary Taste, Culture and Mass Communication, volume 9 (Uses of Literacy; Media), Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey; Teaneck, N.J.: Somerset House, →ISBN, page 9/231:
- My father driving me to school in a bathrobe, like bathwear has suddenly come into fashion or something, that’s bizarre.2006, Olivia Birdsall, Notes on a Near-Life Experience, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 107:
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- “I took him shopping,” Val said. “For bathwear?” he said, nodding toward Bobby who was still wrapped in a towel. “No, of course not for bathwear.” “But you have an interest in bathing my son?”2015, David Whitehouse, Mobile Library, Scribner, →ISBN, page 88: