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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

vêtements pour femmes

Pronunciation / Transliteration: vêt.mɑ̃ puʁ fam

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Womenswear/ˈwɪmɪnz.wɛər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Elle achète tous ses vêtements pour femmes dans cette boutique."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Clothing designed, manufactured, and sold for women.

    "The department store dedicated an entire floor to contemporary womenswear."
  2. 2

    The branch of the fashion and apparel industry that produces women's clothing.

    "She started her career working in the Italian womenswear sector."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'women', tracing back to Old English 'wifmann', and 'wear', from Old English 'werian' meaning to clothe or dress. The compound term emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries within the burgeoning retail and garment industries to specifically categorize clothing designed for women.

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