transitionern.
/tranˈzɪʃ(ə)nə/, /trɑːnˈzɪʃ(ə)nə/, /tranˈsɪʃ(ə)nə/, /trɑːnˈsɪʃ(ə)nə/, /tranˈsɪʒ(ə)nə/, /trɑːnˈsɪʒ(ə)nə/, U.S. /trænˈzɪʃ(ə)nər/ 1. An item of clothing intended to be worn during the changing of the seasons.
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transitioner1941
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1941 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 7 Aug. 6/3 Make sure that your transitioner is adaptable to either summer or fall accessories.
1957 Nocona (Texas) News 16 Aug. (advt.) Marcy Lee's silky transitioner with new ‘hobo sleeve’ that folds short or bracelet-length.
1970 Cullman (Alabama) Times 29 Jan. 12 a/3 (advt.) Easy Transitioner. This little dress, front-zipped and collared the way you like it for fall, will start your season right.
2012 @viaprive 11 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Our Lotus Pant in Navy and Hot Pink is a perfect season transitioner.
2. A person who is making or undergoing a transition from one state, condition, etc., to another. Now esp. with reference to transgender or transsexual persons who are starting life under a new identity.
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1950 Educ. Leadership 7 478/2 Since the transitioners are only part way through their training, their teaching competence should be higher next fall, after the transition program has been completed.
1981 V. Kulvinskas et al. Life in 21st Cent. IV. 380 I found..that I didn't even miss meat, eggs, milk or cheese... I later found this to be typical of transitioners.
1992 W. E. Parker Eval. Performance Retired Mil. Personnel (Ph.D. diss., Old Dominion Univ.) ii. 11 The profile of the career transitioner in the early 1980s was a 37 year old white middle class female with a bachelor's degree.
2008 R. Beard Becoming Drusilla (2009) xii. 262 There's a fashion for younger transitioners to dismiss those making the change later in life... What these young women don't understand is just how much more accessible the process has become, both socially and medically.
2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Mar. (Styles section) 14/1 These late transitioners grew up in an era of rigid gender stereotypes, which they have been both oppressed by and in some cases internalized.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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