Etymology

prêt-à-porter

Today it means: Ready-to-wear. Full definition →

French prêt-à-porter ← English ready-to-wear
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The story

  1. English · derived fromready-to-wear
  2. French · borrowed fromprêt-à-porter
  3. English todayprêt-à-porter

First use appears c. 1957 in Punch. See cite below. Reborrowed from French prêt-à-porter (1951), itself a calque of English ready-to-wear.

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