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- uncountableClothing worn as protection from a storm.
As the guests started bundling into their stormwear and trooping out into the snow, firecrackers and gunshots could be heard in the distance.
1997, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Tailed a Thief, Headline, →ISBN, page 552 more examples
Armed with some manuals, a pocket recorder, and some standard speech-form and folkway tapes, he rapidly purchased thin clothing, stormwear, writing implements, further recording tools, lugbags, and other personal gear.
1967, David I[rvine] Masson, “Traveler’s Rest”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Voyagers in Time: Twelve Stories of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published 1970, page 178“Going out to the disco later?” asked Phil dryly. Marco grinned. “They’re my last set of dry clothes.” Stephane found this highly amusing until it was pointed out that his own minimalist approach to stormwear—bare torso with shiny yellow waterproof dungarees hooked over his shoulders—gave him an uncanny resemblance to a member of the Village People.
2002, Nick Thorpe, 8 Men and a Duck: An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island, The Free Press, →ISBN, page 161
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stormwear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stormwear
“stormwear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stormwear. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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