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shirt-waist

shirt-waist is the alternative spelling of shirtwaist.

Meaning of shirtwaist

Noun

shirtwaist (plural shirtwaists)

  1. (US) A woman's tailored blouse, buttoned down the front.
    • The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist […].1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 109
    Synonyms:
    shirtwaister

Forms of shirt-waist

pluralshirt-waists

Questions about shirt-waist

What is shirt-waist the alternative spelling of?
Shirt-waist is the alternative spelling of shirtwaist.

Words near shirt-waist in the dictionary

  1. shirt-sleeves
  2. shirt-stud abscess
  3. shirt-stud abscesses
  4. shirt-tail
  5. shirt-tails
  6. shirt-waist
  7. shirt-waists
  8. shirtband
  9. shirtbands
  10. shirtcollar
  11. shirtcollars

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