foul-weather gear

1. 1.

   protective garment that is intended to keep the wearer dry and warm in bad weather

   Broaderprotective garment

Questions about foul-weather gear

What does foul-weather gear mean?

foul-weather gear means "protective garment that is intended to keep the wearer dry and warm in bad weather".

Is foul-weather gear a common word?

foul-weather gear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.