noun
shirt
SHURT/ʃɜːrt/
A garment worn on the upper body, with sleeves or armholes.
A long-sleeved shirt hangs neatly from a simple hanger.
Etymology
Middle English shirte named an upper-body garment worn next to the skin. The modern meaning retains the upper-body garment while no longer requiring it to be an undergarment.
In context
sleeve length on this shirt is is right it goes right to the wrist right right right right should but there's this there's this room in the shirt that I don't need
More examples
- He changed into a clean shirt before dinner.
- Several shirts were drying on the line.
- She buttoned the collar of her shirt.
Forms
shirt · shirts