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noun

Shirt waist, shirtwaist n.

A woman's blouse resembling a men's shirt in cut and style; in England called a blouse.

A type of woman's dress with a bodice tailored like a shirt; also called shirt dress, shirtwaist dress, and shirtwaister.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shirt waist" Quotes from Famous Books

... room in answer to my invitation and closed the door behind her. She was dressed in her golfing costume, a plain white shirtwaist—blouse, she would have called it—a short, dark skirt and stout boots. The light garden hat was set upon her dark hair and her cheeks were flushed from rapid walking. The hat and waist and skirt were extremely becoming. She was pretty—yes, beautiful—and ...

— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln

... of Miss Hassiebrock took place, as if mere verbiage had suddenly flung a fang. From beneath the sternly and too starched white shirtwaist and the unwilted linen cravat wound high about her throat and sustained there with a rhinestone horseshoe, it was as if a wave of color had started deep down, rushing up under milky flesh ...

— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

... an instant to insure perfect composure, smoothed down her trim shirtwaist, pushed back a straying wisp of her naturally wavy hair, picked up her notebook and three sharp pencils, and went quietly ...

— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.