shirt
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
shirt (plural shirts)
- An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
- 1705 (revised 1718), Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
- Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.
- She had her shirts and girdles of hair.
- 1705 (revised 1718), Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
- An interior lining in a blast furnace.
- A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
- French: chemise
- German: Hemd
- Italian: camicia, maglia
- Portuguese: camisa
- Russian: руба́шка
- Spanish: camisa
shirt (shirts, present participle shirting; past and past participle shirted)
- To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
- 1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I.
- Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air.
- 1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I.
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