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shirt-tail

noun

  1. the part of a shirt that extends below the waist

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Once when she was excited and caught her shirt-tail in the electric fan he acted in such a kindly way that she was not embarrassed at all.

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He can supprt the Seahawks on Blue Friday, at the gym and during games in this cozy, long-sleeve wicking tee with a shirt-tail hem and Seattle-appropriate hood.

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He loosened his belt and tucked in his shirt-tail and tightened the belt again.

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That news sent a drone of excited pleasure through the bluegrass companies, and even into the phlegmatic stoicism of the Shirt-tail battalion crept the suppressed expectation of the first charge.

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They were the Second battalion of the Fifth Kentucky, but they were better known as the "Shirt-tail battalion," and their far-seeing colonel seemed, on the whole, contented with them.

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