wearableadj.n.

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 14 He..did encrease his numbers of Mosquettiers, the blowes of the bullets of which, no armours wearable can resist.

1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples i. 15 Oil, Cheese, Silk, and all other either edible, or wearable commodities.

1801 S. Lennox Life & Lett. (1901) II. 151 I assure you a poplin is not weareable in these days.

1842 R. Oastler Fleet Papers II. 26 It..will not weave into wearable cloths.

1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 105 By the time I had made and smoked a cigarette, the powerful sun of January had dried the sock to a wearable state.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. ix. 180 The only shop in London at which wearable gloves could be bought.

1896 J. L. Allen Summer in Arcady iii. 11 The thousand..things, eatable, wearable, or otherwise usable that may be sent to and fro between friendly households.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4817/7 Gloves, Buttons, Wearables.

c1720 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) I. 215 I had..provided her handsome Lodgings..and, for her Wearables, rich Sattins, Gold Watch, and a hundred other Trinkets.

1726 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 137 Whether a minor be not chargeable for eatables and wearables supplied on the credit of another.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 87 He..moved off with Mrs. Dutton's wearables and deposited the trunk containing them safely in the boat.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. i. 29 Let a woman ask me to give her an edible or a wearable..I can, at least, understand the demand.

1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn xlvi Drawers were crammed with his wearables.

1934 N.Y. Times 9 July 4/1 Small wearable device conveys sound through the bones.

1955 Sci. News Let. 29 Oct. 288/1 Wearable flashlight that weighs only four and one-half ounces can be worn around the neck, on the chest or on the head.

1971 N.Y. Times 22 Jan. 45/3 An artificial heart will be sustaining life by 1980, and kidney machines will be wearable.

1982 Vogue Aug. 304/2 New wearable fitness devices measure success as you walk, jog, bike.

1991 InfoWorld 9 Dec. 66/2 Wearable computers will appear first on the belts of field maintenance professionals and then spread into other deskless, information-intensive jobs.

1995 Sci. Amer. Sept. 53/3 (caption) Wireless wristphone..demonstrates that although the market may not be ready for wearable communications devices, the technology is close at hand.

2004 PC Mag. 17 Aug. 19/3 Microsoft is already a player in the wearable computing market with its services for smart watches.

2014 Metro Herald (Dublin) (Nexis) 30 Jan. (Features section) 17 The new age of wearable technology..in which wristbands monitor our sleep..and computerised glasses give us directions from A to B.

1995 PR Newswire (Nexis) 10 Oct. Wearables are a natural for maintenance or inspection operations when people need hands-free access to complex information.

1998 Independent on Sunday 31 May (Review Suppl.) 60/2 Most wearables at present come with either a headset..or with goggles.

2002 K. Warwick I, Cyborg viii. 107 Some recent developments are directed towards medical wearables to assist the elderly.

2013 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Sept. 38/2 Last month I tried a different type of wearable: a wristwatch computer.

2015 A. Calvo Beginning Android Wearables 55 Both Android Wear and Glass automatically take the notifications issued on a handheld device and share them with a wearable, as long as both devices are paired.