undergarment

[ uhn-der-gahr-muhnt ]

noun

1. an article of underwear.

undergarment

/ ˈʌndəˌɡɑːmənt /

noun

1. any garment worn under the visible outer clothes, usually next to the skin

Word History and Origins

Origin of undergarment¹

First recorded in 1520–30; under- + garment

Example Sentences

Firstly, all men’s leggings on the market are designed as an undergarment rather than a standalone piece.

From Washington Blade

When, in 1968, the president of the undergarment manufacturer Playtex learned that his own wife had thrown away her girdles, the end seemed nigh.

From Popular-Science

The researchers had an opera singer perform while wearing an undergarment made from their fibers.

From MIT Technology Review

There’s nothing overly flashy about the brand’s garments, and this undergarment is no exception.

From Outside Online

The deal gives more credibility to the young brand, which bills itself as providing functional undergarments that both shape and stretch with their wearer.

From Quartz

But Shrier noted that undergarment trends tend to “ebb and flow.”

From The Daily Beast

But if you have to travel all the time in dresses, wearing a tight undergarment may not be ideal.

From The Daily Beast

The pointy undergarment reached its teleological conclusion in 1990, when Gaultier designed the rocket cone bra for Madonna.

From The Daily Beast

The crusene was a fur coat, while the serc or smoc seems to have been an undergarment and probably sleeveless.

From Project Gutenberg

The fashionable sleeves were tight to the elbow, and from there hanging and narrow, showing a sleeve belonging to an undergarment.

From Project Gutenberg

They took off her blanket, but left on a little white undergarment.

From Project Gutenberg

Over her shoulders were the thin strings of an undergarment that Tom thought was generally concealed.

From Project Gutenberg

For answer Bertha took another twist around the stout neck-band of his orange undergarment.

From Project Gutenberg

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