shirtwaist
See also: shirt-waist and shirt waist
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editshirtwaist (plural shirtwaists)
- (US) A woman's tailored blouse, buttoned down the front.
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 109:
- The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist […].