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menswear

US/ˈmɛnz.wɛɚ/

noun

What it means

  1. uncountableMen's clothing (and accessories), particularly in a retail context.

    Derek Guy was a relatively unknown menswear writer with 25,000 followers on Twitter in 2022.

    2025 June 14, Christopher Mathias, “JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2025

In a sentence

Derek Guy was a relatively unknown menswear writer with 25,000 followers on Twitter in 2022.

2025 June 14, Christopher Mathias, “JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2025

Where it comes from

  1. Englishmen
  2. Proto-Indo-European*wes-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*woséyeti
  4. Proto-Germanic*wazjaną
  5. Proto-West Germanic*waʀjan
  6. Old Englishwerian
  7. Middle Englishweren
  8. Englishwear
  9. Englishmenswear

From men + -s- + -wear.

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