underdrawers
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of underdrawers
Example Sentences
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She hung out the wash in the East Room so critics would not ridicule the sight of the President's underdrawers flapping in the breeze.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were promptly supplied with pocket money by Queen Wilhelmina, and Her Majesty, with motherly solicitude, saw to it that all twelve bridesmaids were supplied with special, quick-action woolen underdrawers.
From Time Magazine Archive
His mission: the purchase of one pair of underdrawers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even in machine-bossed Jersey City, voters clobbered an egregious clown, Democrat T. James Tumulty, a 330-lb. jolly boy with a penchant for posing for photographers in his underdrawers, and voted in Vincent J. Dellay.
From Time Magazine Archive
And we had to wear shoes and clean underdrawers to the funeral.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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