underdrawers
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of underdrawers
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Bumpkin In Dallas, Tex., police picked up a shaggy-haired young man they found on the street late at night, dressed only in long cotton underdrawers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was because you wadded up your underdrawers to stop up the flue on the stove and smoke out the schoolhouse.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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