prisonwear

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noun

Clothes to be worn by inmates of a prison.

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Meanings

nounprisonwear (uncountable)
  1. uncountableClothes to be worn by inmates of a prison.

    Convicts in striped prisonwear collect trash by the roadside, watched over by their guards.

    2014, Roger Frankham, “USA”, in Bite Size World: Eating My Way Around the Planet, Cirencester: Mereo, →ISBN, part three (North America), page 181

Origin

From prison + -wear.

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APA

prisonwear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonwear

MLA

“prisonwear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonwear. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prisonwear,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonwear.

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