beachwear

[ beech-wair ]

noun

1. clothing for wear at a beach, swimming pool, or the like.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beachwear¹

First recorded in 1925–30; beach + wear

Example Sentences

Environmental organization Parley for the Oceans has collaborated with Dior on a beachwear capsule collection for the third year in a row.

From Los Angeles Times

The government has made fighting radical Islam a priority, and secularism is seen as a bulwark against the feared growth of religious influence on daily life, down to beachwear.

From Seattle Times

Today, the government has made fighting radical Islam a priority, and secularism is seen as a bulwark against the feared growth of religious influence on daily life, down to beachwear.

From Seattle Times

Giddy and super-stoked, the girls have come equipped with suitcases of beachwear, tubs of makeup and apparently superhuman livers.

From New York Times

But year after year he would visit only to return to frigid Chicago — and his friends at the Pier Peddler, a beachwear store, began taking his promise for a joke.

From Washington Post

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