SHIRTWAIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shirtwaist mean? 

• SHIRTWAIST (noun)
  The noun SHIRTWAIST has 1 sense:

1. a blouse with buttons down the front

  Familiarity information: SHIRTWAIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIRTWAIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blouse with buttons down the front

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

shirtwaist; shirtwaister

Context example:

in Britain they call a shirtwaist a shirtwaister

Hypernyms ("shirtwaist" is a kind of...):

blouse (a top worn by women)

 Context examples 

Michaelis and this man reached her first but when they had torn open her shirtwaist still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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, and then, as her newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed despairingly into deep heat with a desolate cry.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)