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undergarment

[ uhn-der-gahr-muhnt ]

noun

  1. an article of underwear.


undergarment

/ ˈʌndəˌɡɑːmənt /

noun

  1. any garment worn under the visible outer clothes, usually next to the skin
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of undergarment1

First recorded in 1520–30; under- + garment
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Example Sentences

Firstly, all men’s leggings on the market are designed as an undergarment rather than a standalone piece.

When, in 1968, the president of the undergarment manufacturer Playtex learned that his own wife had thrown away her girdles, the end seemed nigh.

The researchers had an opera singer perform while wearing an undergarment made from their fibers.

There’s nothing overly flashy about the brand’s garments, and this undergarment is no exception.

The deal gives more credibility to the young brand, which bills itself as providing functional undergarments that both shape and stretch with their wearer.

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But Shrier noted that undergarment trends tend to “ebb and flow.”

But if you have to travel all the time in dresses, wearing a tight undergarment may not be ideal.

The pointy undergarment reached its teleological conclusion in 1990, when Gaultier designed the rocket cone bra for Madonna.

The crusene was a fur coat, while the serc or smoc seems to have been an undergarment and probably sleeveless.

The fashionable sleeves were tight to the elbow, and from there hanging and narrow, showing a sleeve belonging to an undergarment.

They took off her blanket, but left on a little white undergarment.

Over her shoulders were the thin strings of an undergarment that Tom thought was generally concealed.

For answer Bertha took another twist around the stout neck-band of his orange undergarment.

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