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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A collarless knit shirt with long or short sleeves and buttons extending partway down the front.

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  • noun A type of knit shirt with a front placket but no collar

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Henley, where such shirts were traditionally worn by crews rowing in the annual regatta held there.]

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From the town of Henley in England, where the rowers wore shirts of this type

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