underwearn.
/ˈʌndəwɛː/, U.S. /ˈəndərˌwɛ(ə)r/ Underclothing; also, the fact of wearing, or of being worn, as underclothing.
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1872 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 2 Apr. 6/1 (advt.) Ladies' underwear... Best Merino Undershirts, fine finish;..fine French corsets.
1875 Cassell's Family Mag. I. 113/2 It will scarcely be necessary to give the address where the patterns of hygiene ‘under-wear’ are to be obtained. It would be more to the purpose to tell how the so-called ‘under-wear’ is made and trimmed in Paris.
1880 Scribner's Monthly 213 The general want of underwear was not so cruelly felt as had been feared.
1885 T. M. Coan Ounces of Prevention (1888) 10 Robust persons will get along well enough with the ordinary ‘mixed underwear’.
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