churchwear

English

Etymology

From church + -wear.

Noun

churchwear (uncountable)

  1. Clothing intended to be worn in church.
    • 2017 July 26, Doreen St. Félix, “The Autofictions of Kendrick Lamar”, in The New Yorker:
      The first blushes of Lamar’s aesthetic expansion came with the video for “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” in 2013. Clad in crisp white churchwear, Lamar frolicked with a congregation, first in a hearse and then in a wheat field, as he led a casket to a sun-drenched resting place.
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