woman's clothing
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈwʊmənz ˈkloʊðɪŋ/
:
ropa de mujer
- Do you sell women's clothing here?
- a woman's clothing store
- wear woman's clothing
- dress in woman's clothing
Examples
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She wore women's clothing.
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Someday I hope to have my very own line of women's clothing.
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I like to dress in women's clothing.
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Have you ever worn women's clothing?
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You're spending way too much money on women's clothing.
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Selling women's clothing in a men's shop also presented a downside.
Academic text (2018) -
Epps steps up to it, pulling back the door to reveal a rack of women's clothing hanging there undisturbed.
Fiction book (2002) -
She's getting me my job in the city, and I'm quitting the Egyptian who runs a women's clothing store on Steinway Street.
Fiction book (1992) -
A woman's clothing was packed inside linen, lace, and embroidery, all heavily creased from lying long undisturbed.
Fiction book (1998) -
The local boutique specializes in stylish woman's clothing for all occasions.
Synonyms
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2.8
Clothes made for women, like dresses and coats
How Feminine
Surface Forms
Morphology
woman's + clothing
The meaning is directly compositional: the possessive 'woman's' (female person) + 'clothing' (garments) yields 'clothing for women', which a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer. This possessive noun + noun construction is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English grammar, so the phrase is transparently interpretable (noting only that 'women's clothing' is the more frequent plural form).
Etymology
Woman's clothing comes from shops and tailors that labeled items with woman's (meaning 'for a woman') and clothing (the things you wear). So today woman's clothing simply means clothes 'designed for women'.