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Shirt
Definitions
- 1 An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
"He went to the mall to buy shirts his size."
- 2 a garment worn on the upper half of the body wordnet
- 3 An interior lining in a blast furnace.
- 4 A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
- 1 To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
"1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I. Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air."
- 2 put a shirt on wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English sherte, shurte, schirte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”), from *skurtaz (“short”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Schoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skjorte (“shirt”), Norwegian skjorte (“shirt”), Swedish skjorta (“shirt”), Faroese skjúrta (“shirt”), Icelandic skyrta (“shirt”). Doublet of skirt via Old Norse; further related to short.
From Middle English sherten, shirten (also shorten), from the noun (see above).
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