shirtwaist

[ shurt-weyst ]

/ ˈʃɜrtˌweɪst /

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noun

a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.

Also called shirt-dress, shirtwaist dress, shirtwaister. a dress with a bodice and a front opening tailored like those of a dress shirt.

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Origin of shirtwaist

First recorded in 1875–80; shirt + waist

The soubrette had a lank young body neatly attired in a store suit and shirt-waist.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Through the vista of trees the pink shirt-waist of the pretty stenographer glimmered like a rose blooming in the wilderness.
In Search of the Unknown|Robert W. Chambers
After I had strolled in a complete circle I found myself within three feet of a pink shirt-waist.
In Search of the Unknown|Robert W. Chambers
In the 1909 strike of the New York shirt-waist makers, all the nationalities responded to the union ideal save the Italian girls.
The Old World in the New|Edward Alsworth Ross

Maggie's dress was just the ordinary shirt-waist and skirt that the shopgirl and her sisters wear; Hunt had ordered it so.
Children of the Whirlwind|Leroy Scott