undergarment

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We are now at least half a decade beyond the years Wallace intended his novel’s subsidized time schema — Year of the Whopper, Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment — to represent.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2016

Turning over the job of naming the weather itself to a commercial business feels like something out of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, in which characters lived through The Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment.

From Time • Jan. 4, 2013

Undergarment designers got the idea, insiders say, when the Knicks trotted out their latest $2 million bust.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2010

But last week, as some 1,000 out-of-town buyers headed home after days of hectic shopping at Manhattan's annual Undergarment Market Week, their order books reflected little interest in the flat look.

From Time Magazine Archive

Undergarment, un′dėr-g�r-ment, n. any article of clothing worn under another.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various