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ethnicky outfit

ethnicky outfit

9.3
Clothes that show a person's culture or heritage
  • noun
  • Informal
translation icon : traje étnico
  • She arrived at the festival wearing a stunning ethnicky outfit inspired by her ancestry.

Examples

  • He proudly donned his ethnicky outfit for the international day at school.

  • Contestants were encouraged to showcase their ethnicky outfit during the cultural parade.

  • She wore a beautiful ethnicky outfit for the festival.

  • Many people love to wear ethnicky outfits during cultural celebrations.

  • He proudly donned his ethnicky outfit for the international day at school.

  • Many people love to wear ethnicky outfits during cultural celebrations.

  • Contestants were encouraged to showcase their ethnicky outfit during the cultural parade.

Synonyms

costume
vsethnicky outfit
47 3.0

Clothing style typical of a country, time period, or social group

is narrower, used for clothes that show cultural heritage and celebrate traditions

Antonyms

75 3.4

The ideas and activities most people accept as normal

How Ethnic

ethnicky outfit
  • Informal
9.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

ethnicky + outfit

Although 'ethnicky' is non-standard, it is transparently derived from 'ethnic' (relating to a cultural or ethnic group) with a productive adjectival form combined with 'outfit' (a clothing ensemble). The phrase therefore composes directly to mean clothing that reflects a particular cultural/ethnic background, a pattern that is cross-linguistically common and easily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituents.

Etymology

Ethnicky outfit comes from people wearing special clothes to show their culture, like a bright dress, patterned coat or a special hat passed down in families. Here ethnicky points to a person's cultural origin and outfit means clothes. So, ethnicky outfit means 'a set of clothes that shows a particular culture'.