shirtlet
shirtlet noun: a small shirt.
Noun
shirtlet (plural shirtlets)
- A small shirt.
- She saw Rollo sitting in the middle of the bed with his arms tightly manacled to the side of his head by a twisted shirtlet which crossed his face in many folds, concealing from sight all his features save two tearbrimmed blue eyes, and at the same time effectually smothering all attempts at...1897, Robert J. Burdette, Chimes from a Jester's Bells
- The ornaments were ingrooved all over the dued blue shirtlet and are constituted of straight and curved grooves, transversal incisions, plinted sloped punctures on the calote of the armour, that are sporadically flaked ( T. I , 1a : T. II . 1a ).1992, Narodni muzej--Beograd, Zbornik radova - Volume 14, page 223
Examples of shirtlet in a sentence
- In the abdomen of a dream, a warm shirtlet bunched at his chest, thighs, and belly cool, one leg outside the covers to regulate temp.2014, Andrew Levine, Lullaby, page 15:
- Boots set off with it back to the castle, apprehensive of what his father would think of the shirtlet.2016, “Doll-in-the-Grass”, in The Witches' Almanac: Issue 36, Spring 2017 to 2018, page 139:
Forms of shirtlet
| plural | shirtlets |
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Origin of shirtlet
From shirt + -let.
Questions about shirtlet
- What does shirtlet mean?
- Shirtlet means a small shirt.
- How do you use shirtlet in a sentence?
- In the abdomen of a dream, a warm shirtlet bunched at his chest, thighs, and belly cool, one leg outside the covers to regulate temp.
- What part of speech is shirtlet?
- Shirtlet is a noun.
- What is the plural of shirtlet?
- The plural of shirtlet is shirtlets.
Words near shirtlet in the dictionary
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