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overshirt

n. A shirt intended to be worn over other clothes.

Usage examples of "overshirt".

He stepped into the bedroom he shared with Royden and reemerged a minute later wearing his overshirt and cap and carrying a pile of worn books.

And, as he stood in the antechamber and shook off his sodden overshirt, he could hear them shouting and laughing.

Bernel removed his apron, put on his overshirt, and gestured for Baden to lead the way outside.

Drina, too, had a gift for him: a new overshirt, woolen and heavy enough for the cold he and Baden would encounter crossing the mountains.

His new overshirt offered some relief, but only some, and he found himself eschewing rests along the trail in order to stay in motion and thus stay warm.

I had tied two handkerchiefs together, and rolling my share in one of them, belted the amount between my overshirt and undershirt.

His trousers and overshirt were of plain, practical linen canvas, his thigh-high boots and leather cloak were oiled and wax-impregnated to shed water.

As she moved, her cloak loosened, fell a little open, so that her leathern riding dress, that of a Borderer, though she lacked the mail overshirt, was plainly seen.

Now he was given a white linen shirt that came to his upper thigh, and a larger overshirt, called a doublet, made of quilted felt.

I turned and looked up a long expanse of white overshirt before I came to the boyish face.

He was wearing a leather overshirt of deerskin and a pair of soft buckskin trousers.

I made a wad of my overshirt and tucked it in the duffel, pulled on a fresh T-shirt and buckled on my shoulder rig.

The glimmer of the sand, the light shining from the cat mask which swung free outside my overshirt, fought the dark, though nothing could reach within the many shadows, for I had no lamp.

Chris, then: Cloaks for both, a loose, long dress for Robyn, thick brown breeches and an overshirt for Chris, a hardened leather vest that laced under the arms.

Indeed, in the absence of the overshirt, the trousers required severe belt-pleating to keep them even indifferently moored by her waist.