shirt-waist

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [shurt weyst]
- /ʃɜrt weɪst/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [shurt weyst]
- /ʃɜrt weɪst/

Definitions of shirt-waist word

noun shirt-waist a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women. 1
noun shirt-waist Also called shirt-dress, shirtwaist dress, shirtwaister. a dress with a bodice and a front opening tailored like those of a dress shirt. 1

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Origin of shirt-waist

First appearance:

before 1875

One of the 25% newest English words

First recorded in 1875-80; shirt + waist

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Parts of speech for Shirt-waist

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Shirt-waist

shirt-waist popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 59% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

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