Meanings
- uncountableClothing to be worn on a yacht.
It’s Mitt Romney, and an almost ninety-year-old guy in what looks like formal yachtwear.
2012, 1,001 Ways the Republican Party Is Screwing the Middle Class, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 2122 more examples
They were wearing expensive wet gear in matching buff and pale blue, of the type international yachtwear designers do not realize will make the wearer invisible in five seconds if he falls overboard.
1994, Sam Llewellyn, Maelstrom, Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 158–159There is a small range of shops on St Mary’s; apart from Steve the butcher and Mumfords, there’s a chemist in Hugh Town, a Post Office, the Co-op stores, a newly opened delicatessen and four clothes shops, mostly selling designer yachtwear; but, strangely for such a seafaring community, there’s no fishmonger.
2008, Nigel Farrell, An Island Parish: A Summer on Scilly, Headline, →ISBN, page 147
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