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Wearable

adjective

Suitable for wear or able to be worn. "A wearable hearing aid"

noun

A covering designed to be worn on a person's body. Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear.

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"Wearable" Quotes from Famous Books

... our former assertion that it is the make which renders a common material wearable in ...

— Routledge's Manual of Etiquette • George Routledge

... for jewels. From the days when the dower chest contained a small compartment for valuable trinkets the furniture of the lady's boudoir has been incomplete without a jewel box or some article of furniture where the knick-knacks of the home could be kept, and more especially the wearable jewellery. The Chinese and Japanese have ever been clever in the fashioning of small cabinets, and many delightful little boxes, cabinets, and jewellery receptacles have been brought over ...

— Chats on Household Curios • Fred W. Burgess

... women are sensible, and, above all, intelligible, I can get on with them. It is only the vague, superfine sensations, and extremely wire-drawn notions, that put me about. Let a woman ask me to give her an edible or a wearable—be the same a roc's egg or the breastplate of Aaron, a share of St. John's locusts and honey or the leathern girdle about his loins—I can, at least, understand the demand; but when they pine for they know not what—sympathy, ...

— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... told him so, that they simply hated the formal mode of address, which no one used except himself. It always had the effect of making them stiff and self-conscious; so now Rupert limped more than usual, Sylvia dropped her gloves, which she was carrying because they had too many holes to be wearable, and Rumple lurched against a pile of books that lay at the edge of the table and brought the whole lot to ...

— The Adventurous Seven - Their Hazardous Undertaking • Bessie Marchant

... certainly had caused many ravages in the sheepskin cloak—there were tiny holes everywhere, and the fur when you touched it came out in handfuls. But as the fur would be turned inwards, that wouldn't matter so much. The bunda was quite wearable: there was just a bad tear in the leather close to the pocket, which might show and ...

— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy