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prêt-à-porter

adj

Etymology

First use appears c. 1957 in Punch. See cite below. Reborrowed from French prêt-à-porter (1951), itself a calque of English ready-to-wear.

  1. derived from ready-to-wear
  2. borrowed from prêt-à-porter

Definitions

  1. Ready-to-wear.

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