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.
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Shirtfront
Synonyms for "shirtfront" (4 found)
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Translations
8 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- нагръдник noun (the front part of a shirt)
Dutch
1 entries- voorkant noun (the front part of a shirt)
Finnish
1 entries- etumus noun (the front part of a shirt)
Galician
1 entries- cós noun (the front part of a shirt)
Norman
1 entries- fale dé c'mînse noun (the front part of a shirt)
Polish
1 entries- przód noun (the front part of a shirt)
Romanian
1 entries- pieptar noun (the front part of a shirt)
Spanish
1 entries- peto noun (the front part of a shirt)
Sample sentences
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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.
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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.
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False fronts, frequently called "shirt fronts," are futile attempts to make a small, cheap house pass for something larger and more valuable.
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