prêt-à-porter

== English == === 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. === Adjective === prêt-à-porter (not comparable) Ready-to-wear. ==== Usage notes ==== Synonymous with ready-to-wear, of which it is a reborrowing, but conveys a more upscale usage, due to the prestige of the French language. === References === === Anagrams === perpetrator == French == === Etymology === 1951, calque of English ready-to-wear. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pʁɛ.t‿a.pɔʁ.te/ === Noun === prêt-à-porter m (plural prêts-à-porter) ready-to-wear clothing, off-the-rack clothing, off-the-peg clothing 1951, Le Figaro, 28 Dec 1951, p.3, col. 6: ==== Descendants ==== → English: prêt-à-porter → Japanese: プレタポルテ (puretaporute) === References === == Indonesian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from French prêt-à-porter (“ready-to-wear”). === Adjective === prêt-à-porter (comparative lebih prêt-à-porter, superlative paling prêt-à-porter) (fashion) ready-to-wear Synonym: siap pakai === Further reading === “prêt-à-porter”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016