WEARABLE

wearable

(adjective) suitable for wear or able to be worn; “wearable evening clothes”; “a wearable hearing aid”

clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment

(noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person’s body

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

wearable (comparative more wearable, superlative most wearable)

Able to be worn.

Noun

wearable (plural wearables)

Something that can be worn; an item of clothing.

(computing) Ellipsis of wearable computer.

Source: Wiktionary


Wear"a*ble, a.

Definition: Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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