In early use: a long shirt or shirt-like undergarment worn (esp. by women) for warmth and to protect clothing from sweat; a shift, a smock…

A garment worn next the skin; a shirt or chemise; occasionally a nightshirt; also transferred a surplice.

Originally: a long, loose undergarment covering the torso, arms, and (often) the upper legs (compare chemise, n. 1a). Now usually: a garment for the…

An under-waistcoat, in earlier use esp. one worn under a doublet; an under-vest, woollen or flannel under-garment. ? Obsolete.

An under-shirt or vest.

A shirt.

A body-garment of linen, cotton, or the like; in early use applied indifferently to men's and women's underclothing; subsequently, a woman's…

(under-, prefix1 affix 2b(a).)

A shirt, a chemise.

A type of undershirt or undertunic worn in ancient Rome.

A woollen waistcoat or undershirt.

An undershirt, vest, semmit. Scottish.

(See quots.)

(under-, prefix1 affix 2b(a).)

a shirt.

(under-, prefix1 affix 2b(a).)

A knitted or woven undergarment for the upper part of the body, worn next to the skin.

An undervest; also, underpants.

North American slang (originally Nautical). An undershirt, a vest. Also skivvy shirt.

U.S. colloquial. A sleeveless (white) cotton undershirt or vest; a vest top. Also more fully wife-beater vest, etc.