Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman's blouse or bodice styled like a tailored shirt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A garment for women's and children's wear, resembling a shirt in fashion, but worn over the underclothing, and extending no lower than the waist, where it is belted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A woman's blouse resembling a men's shirt in cut and style; -- in England called a
blouse . - a type of woman's dress with a bodice tailored like a shirt; -- also called
shirt dress ,shirtwaist dress , andshirtwaister .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US a woman's
tailored blouse ,buttoned down the front
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a blouse with buttons down the front
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Examples
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Over the shirtwaist was a natty jacket, elbow-sleeved, and to the elbows she wore gloves of imitation suede.
CHAPTER II 2010
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VON DREHLE: A shirtwaist is a woman ` s blouse, basically.
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Her shirtwaist was a soft, feminine shade of lavender, trimmed with lace, but her skirt was no-nonsense black.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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Her shirtwaist was a soft, feminine shade of lavender, trimmed with lace, but her skirt was no-nonsense black.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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Her shirtwaist was a soft, feminine shade of lavender, trimmed with lace, but her skirt was no-nonsense black.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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Over the shirtwaist was a natty jacket, elbow-sleeved, and to the elbows she wore gloves of imitation suede.
Chapter 2 1913
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It could never have been called a "shirtwaist," as Arethusa's plain garments of the same shape with their simple rows of tucking were named.
The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox
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At the present time the designer has drawn his picture showing it as a pendent bag from the "shirtwaist," like the pouch of the bird pelican.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous
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The shirtwaist was a woman’s garment with a mannish touch: a buttoned front.
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The Editors 2009
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Leaders of the labor union that organized the shirtwaist strike were so disturbed by the finery of the strikers that they attempted to impose a limit on the amount of money that each member of the union could spend on clothes.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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