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ˈunisex, a. and n.
[f. uni- + sex n.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by a style (of dress, appearance, etc.) that is designed or suitable for either sex; not peculiar to one sex, sexually indeterminate or neutral.
1968Life 21 June 87 With-it young couples..are finding that looking alike is good fashion as well as good fun. The unisex trend was launched by..the teen-agers. 1968Manch. Guardian Weekly 21 Nov. 4 Greenwich Village..has just spawned the world's ‘first unisex boutique for men and women from 16 to 25’. 1969New Yorker 5 Apr. 99/1 Unisex metallic trouser suits. 1969Daily Tel. 6 June 17 Unisex fashions have literally gone to children's heads, with look-alike brother and sister haircuts. 1970P. Carlon Death by Demonstration vi. 71 A lot of the men..were friendly with her on a strictly unisex level. I mean there was nothing in the slightest degree like romantic attraction. 1972Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 1 July 47/1 ‘How clean,’ ‘how Spartan,’ ‘how unisex’ the Chinese appeared to be. 1976J. I. M. Stewart Memorial Service xv. 262 A sexuality quite as strong as Anna's moved beneath the androgynous or ‘unisex’ persona she had created for herself. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Mar. 320/1 A group of student actors, all with cropped hair, sallow cheeks and dressed in unisex denims, are warming up in front of a packed house.
B. n. A condition or phase during which people of both sexes appear to be indistinguishable in dress and outward behaviour.
1969Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 11 May 24/8 It's unisex where men and women have abandoned the old ‘vive la difference’ school of thought in dressing and added a fillip to the old guessing game of ‘is it a he or a she?’ 1972Nature 28 Jan. 234/2 It could be pertinent to recall that, at the time these results were obtained, the adolescent trend towards unisex was strongly under way. 1976T. Sharpe Wilt i. 5 Eva Wilt was too easily influenced..to be allowed out with a woman who believed that..unisex was here to stay. |