shirtfronts

Noun

shirtfront (plural shirtfronts)

1. The front part of a shirt.
   • In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.2025 September 12, Jack Collins, “Why Did Men Stop Wearing Three-Piece Suits?”, in Gentleman's Gazette
2. A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.
   • I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
3. A pitch that is easy to bat on.
4. (Australian rules football) A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
5. (slang) An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.
   • It is explained that a "shirt front" building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front.1927, The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, volumes 30-32, page 100

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