shirt
/ʃɜɹt/ noun A1- An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, often with sleeves that cover some or all of the arms. · He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview.
- An interior lining in a blast furnace.
- A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
Plural shirts
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He bestowed the same attention upon the cambric front of a shirt, which had considerably changed in color since his entrance into the prison, and he polished his varnished boots with the corner of a handkerchief embroidered with initials surmounted by a coronet.
He was in shirt and trousers, with no covering to his feet.
Boots, shirt, cap—it was all Sir Henry’s.
His glance was keen but showed cunning rather than intelligence; his lips were straight, and so thin that, as they closed, they were drawn in over the teeth; his cheek-bones were broad and projecting, a never-failing proof of audacity and craftiness; while the flatness of his forehead, and the enlargement of the back of his skull, which rose much higher than his large and coarsely shaped ears, combined to form a physiognomy anything but prepossessing, save in the eyes of such as considered that the owner of so splendid an equipage must needs be all that was admirable and enviable, more especially when they gazed on the enormous diamond that glittered in his shirt, and the red ribbon that depended from his button-hole.
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