shirt
Meaning
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- An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
- An interior lining in a blast furnace.
- A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
Synonyms
inner garment
business shirt
dress-shirt
upper-body clothes
sleeveless undershirt
long gown
knitted shirt
blast furnace lining
T-Shirt
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃɜːt/
Etymology
From Middle English sherte, shurte, schirte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”), from *skurtaz (“short”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Schoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skjorte (“shirt”), Norwegian skjorte (“shirt”), Swedish skjorta (“shirt”), Faroese skjúrta (“shirt”), Icelandic skyrta (“shirt”). English skirt is a parallel formation from Old Norse; which is a doublet of short, from the same ultimate source.
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