T-shirtn.
/ˈtiːʃəːt/, U.S. /ˈtiˌʃərt/ Originally U.S.
A simple kind of garment, originally a man's undershirt, typically short-sleeved, round-necked, buttonless and made from knitted cotton fabric, and forming the shape of a letter T when spread out flat; now a similar garment of various designs, widely worn as a shirt by men, women, and children for sport or as casual wear.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > t-shirt
T-shirt1944
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tee1948
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1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. i. 25 Amory, provided with ‘six suits summer underwear..one sweater or T shirt..’, set out for New England, the land of schools.
1944 Survey Graphic Aug. 368/3 We have been slow to realize that the high school crowd needs to sit in with us, with all their jive talk, their ‘T’ shirts and ‘sloppy joes’.
1948 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Aug. 6/2 A ragged looking pair of trousers and as dark a shirt [as] possible or an old ‘tee’ shirt.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top xxv. 203 Roy..was wearing blue suède shoes, blue linen slacks, an orange T-shirt, and white sunglasses.
1958 Daily Express 4 Mar. 3/7 Lord M——..wore a striped tee-shirt.
1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon xiv. 202 Sebastian,..presented a sharp contrast to myself, already scruffy in T-shirt and jeans.
1980 Times 7 Feb. 13 There will be pop music and phone-ins, tee-shirts and car stickers.
Derivatives
T-shirted adj. (also tee-shirted) wearing or clothed in a T-shirt.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for body (and limbs) > wearing a t-shirt
T-shirted1957
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road ii. vi. 134 His muscular neck, T-shirted in the winter night.
1959 Times 21 Oct. 11/3 T-shirted trippers perched on tubular steel chairs.
1973 Philadelphia Inquirer 14 Oct. (Today Suppl.) 27 (caption) A funeral parlor..is guarded by tee-shirted gang members outside.
1979 Guardian 3 Sept. 11/8 The jeaned and tee-shirted young.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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