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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 collars
  2. shirt lifter
  3. shirt lifters
  4. shirt sleeve
  5. shirt sleeves
  6. shirt waist
  7. shirt waists
  8. shirt-button
  9. shirt-buttons
  10. shirt-collar
  11. shirt-collars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shirt waist (page history and authors); shirtwaist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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