单词 | half shirt |
释义 | half shirtn. 1. a. A shirt of shorter than normal length; spec. (a) a day shirt, as opposed to the longer nightshirt; (b) a short shirt worn underneath a longer shirt or nightshirt. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > bodice > other corset1299 overbody1535 jupon1542 jup1603 Pierrot?1789 chemisette1796 spencer1799 jupe1810 jelick1816 railly1819 rail1820 Zouave1859 Basque1860 casaque1872 casaquin1879 overbodice1897 choli1907 halter1935 tube top1974 boob tube1977 bustier1978 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for chest or breast > types of > to cover woman's breast stomach1473 patlet?a1505 partlet1515 stomacher1535 under-forebody1547 square1579 forepart1600 poitrel1607 half-shirt1661 tucker1688 modesty piece1713 modesty1731 modesty-bit1731 buffon1774 habit-shirt1780 chemisette1806 guimpe1850 bandeau1915 monobosom1970 bralette1973 modesty vest1974 1578 in C. W. Cunnington & P. Cunnington Hist. Underclothes (1951) 60 6 fine whole sheirtes. 1 fine laced halfe sheirte. ?1620 J. Elborough Churches Glory 47 Some men, that regard not what course & foule linnen they weare next their shinne, so they have over it a halfe shirt of fine linnen to bee seene. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 13 Oct. (1970) II. 195 This day left off half-shirts and put on a wastecoate. 1678 London Gaz. No. 1343/4 One Half Shirt, with laced Cravat and Ruffles. 1708 T. Burrell Jrnl. 10 May in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1850) 3 154 For 12 ells one quarter of holland, at 5s. 6d., for 6 half shirts, £3 7s. 1951 C. W. Cunnington & P. Cunnington Hist. Underclothes iii. 60 The half-shirt was also a Continental fashion. b. A false detachable shirt front. Cf. dicky n.1 2a, sham n.1 3a. ΘΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > part of > front > detached half-shirt1661 sham1721 shirtee1805 dicky1807 shirt front1830 front1843 shirt bosom1858 plastron1888 vestee1904 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 67 A silk handkerchief round their necks,..half shirts or shams of coarse linen. 1836 D. Jerrold Job Pippins vii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 485/2 Had he dived in his half-shirt, perhaps he had not slept in the blue-room. 1957 Geogr. Jrnl. 123 510 The bag contained, one shirt, two pairs of false sleeves and two half shirts. 1990 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. 60/1 Many designers are succeeding with garments that are half what they pretend to be—dickeys, ascots, half-shirts and other ‘suit fillers’. 2. A short-sleeved or sleeveless garment for the upper body that has been cut short so that it reveals the stomach. ΘΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other bloody shirta1586 ruffle shirt1749 ruffled shirt1754 dicky1781 overshirt1805 camise1812 mill tog1821 boiled shirt1853 Crimean shirt1853 Crimea shirt1857 shirtwaist1859 shirt1867 polo shirt1887 zephyr1887 Ghost Shirt1890 Henley1890 negligée shirt1895 turtle-neck1897 rugby shirt1902 bush shirt1909 tunic shirt1918 safari shirt1921 button-down1924 thousand-miler1929 aloha shirt1936 buba1937 zoot shirt1942 Hawaiian shirt1955 sweater-shirt1964 beach shirt1966 kimono shirt1968 dashiki1969 1981 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 1 Sept. 18/4 Shields noted that the half shirt is outselling the full T-shirt. Last year the company sold 1.2 million shimmel shirts. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Aug. v. 9/2 Except for a few sun-starved sorority girls sporting maple-leaf half-shirts, the center of the immense space lay bare. 2022 @CrayTreyVids 22 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 10 May 2022) Dude at the gym wearing a half shirt sat at the machine I needed during my entire workout. Finally got up, checked himself out in the mirror, and left. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < |
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