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purple shirt of sex

purple shirt of sex proper noun: a tailored royal-purple dress shirt worn by Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) on the television series Sherlock.

Proper noun

purple shirt of sex

  1. (Sherlock fandom slang) A tailored royal-purple dress shirt worn by Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) on the television series Sherlock.
    • The play's promotional art features Cumberbatch-as-Sherlock (wearing the character's purple shirt of sex, as fans have called it) in front of a red-and-white heart-shaped bull's eye-style target.2014, Lynnette Porter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Transition Completed: Films, Fame, Fans, unnumbered page
    • She stays with the brown and white color scheme, but adds a purple stripe and fringe to the ends to represent Sherlock's “purple shirt of sex.”2016, Brigid Cherry, Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles: Handicrafting as Fan Art, page 109

Questions about purple shirt of sex

What does purple shirt of sex mean?
Purple shirt of sex means a tailored royal-purple dress shirt worn by Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) on the television series Sherlock.
What part of speech is purple shirt of sex?
Purple shirt of sex is a proper noun.

Words near purple shirt of sex in the dictionary

  1. purple quartz
  2. purple rice
  3. purple rices
  4. purple sandpiper
  5. purple sandpipers
  6. purple shirt of sex
  7. purple sock
  8. purple socks
  9. purple spurge
  10. purple squirrel
  11. purple squirrels

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