undergarment

[ uhn-der-gahr-muhnt ]

/ ˈʌn dərˌgɑr mənt /

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an article of underwear.

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Origin of undergarment

First recorded in 1520–30; under- + garment

Words nearby undergarment

underflow, underfoot, underframe, underfunded, underfur, undergarment, undergird, underglaze, undergo, undergrad, undergraduate

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That’s changed over the past few years, with myriad companies making very comfortable performance undergarments.
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But Shrier noted that undergarment trends tend to “ebb and flow.”
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But if you have to travel all the time in dresses, wearing a tight undergarment may not be ideal.
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The pointy undergarment reached its teleological conclusion in 1990, when Gaultier designed the rocket cone bra for Madonna.
Bra of the Century|Rebecca Dana|June 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST

The crusene was a fur coat, while the serc or smoc seems to have been an undergarment and probably sleeveless.
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The fashionable sleeves were tight to the elbow, and from there hanging and narrow, showing a sleeve belonging to an undergarment.
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They took off her blanket, but left on a little white undergarment.
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Over her shoulders were the thin strings of an undergarment that Tom thought was generally concealed.
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For answer Bertha took another twist around the stout neck-band of his orange undergarment.
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British Dictionary definitions for undergarment

undergarment

/ (ˈʌndəˌɡɑːmənt) /

noun

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

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