Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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shirt-waist
n. (alternative spelling of shirtwaist English)
Usage examples of "shirt-waist".
Rawson's knock and the girls flocked in, looking so dainty and pretty in their fresh shirt-waists and dimities, and their gay ribbons.
We found her reading about Syria in the encyclopædia, while spread round her on chairs and tables were numbers of silk kimonos, rolls of crocheted lace, shirt-waist patterns, and embroidered linens.
Tonight's dress was a fire-engine-red shirt-waist with shiny gold buttons.