Wearer
['weərə] or ['wɛrɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who wears or carries or displays something as a body covering or accessory; 'the wearer of the crown'.
Editor: Mervin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc.
(n.) That which wastes or diminishes.
Edited by Linda
Examples
- The screed, or frill of the cap, stood a quarter of a yard broad round the face of the wearer. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His very clothes seemed to partake of the hospitable nature of the wearer. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You felt disposed to set down the wearer as somewhat eccentric at once. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There were also a dagger and several metal ornaments strewn about as though torn from their wearer in a struggle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was clear to me, from the strength of the glasses, that the wearer must have been very blind and helpless when deprived of them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Rosine was right; these utensils had in them a blank and immutable terror, beyond the mobile wrath of the wearer's own unglazed eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Meg was asked at once, and the tight slippers tripped about so briskly that none would have guessed the pain their wearer suffered smilingly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- O brother wearers of motley! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Newman