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wear (n.)
"action of wearing" (clothes), mid-15c., from
wear
(v.). Meaning "what one wears" is 1560s. To be
the worse for wear
is attested from 1782; noun phrase
wear and tear
is first recorded 1660s, implying the sense "process of being degraded by use."