a pullover sport shirt, worn outside the waistband of a skirt or pair of slacks
Word origin
[1795–1805; over- + shirt]This word is first recorded in the period 1795–1805. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: hopscotch, mannerism, mirage, sensitivity, unilateralover- is a prefixal use of over, occurring in various senses in compounds (overboard; overcoat; overhang; overlap; overlord; overrun; overthrow), and especially employed, with the sense of “over the limit,” “to excess,” “toomuch,” “too,” to form verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and nouns (overact; overcapitalize; overcrowd; overfull; overmuch; oversupply; overweight), and many others, mostly self-explanatory: a hyphen, which is commonly absent fromold or well-established formations, is sometimes used in new coinages or in any wordswhose component parts it may be desirable to set off distinctly
Examples of 'overshirt' in a sentence
overshirt
He removed his overshirt before doing so, and regretted it almost immediately.
Mark Mills AMAGANSETT (2004)
Left sock, right sock, left arm into undershirt, left arm into overshirt and so on.