boardshort
English
Noun
boardshort
- attributive form of boardshorts
- 2000, Leonard Lueras; Lorca Lueras, Surfing Hawaii: The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Challenging Waves, Periplus Editions, →ISBN:
- Kapaa (cousin to the famous Miura Store boardshort makers of Haleiwa), […]
- 2008, Linda Chase, Surfing: Women of the Waves, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 70:
- Roxy lays claim to a surf-fashion coup—the boardshort, a fashion-forward design that combined fit and flexibility with a more feminine styling. The boardshort, so the Roxy version goes, was developed in a brainstorming session with Roxy’s fashion designers and Lisa Andersen, by then a sponsored member of the Roxy team.
- 2013, Peter Westwick; Peter Neushul, The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 306:
- (Wetsuit and boardshort makers similarly experimented with limestone-based “geoprene” instead of petroleum-based neoprene for wetsuits, and recycled plastic or organic cotton instead of synthetic nylon or polyester boardshorts.)
- 2017, Dani Pettrey, Still Life (Chesapeake Valor; book 2), Bethany House, →ISBN:
- Kyle slipped his hands into his pastel pink boardshort pockets.
- 2022, Anita Faulkner, A Colourful Country Escape, Sphere, →ISBN:
- Now he was shoving them back into his boardshort pockets, she could feel the spring chill creeping back into her.
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