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The Aloha shirt is a style of dress shirt originating in Hawaii.

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  1. noun A garment for the upper part of the body, typically having a collar, sleeves, and a front opening.
  2. noun An undershirt.
  3. noun A nightshirt.
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  • This shirt is available in limited quantities until the end of the year.
  • The Aloha shirt is a style of dress shirt originating in Hawaii. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • This shirt is awesome but I found a helmut lang shirt I want so bye bye. —  superfuture :: supertalk
  • The thin kevlar core has a linen covering on both sides, so that the shirt might be a bit heavier than normal, but it'll look and feel like a regular polo shirt. —  OhGizmo!
  • The text printed on the shirt is a quote from Albert Einstein, saying "True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness" with the small addition of "live life" following the quote. —  Fashion World of SL
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  1. Middle English shirte, from Old English scyrte, short garment; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English shirte, schirte, schyrt, schirt, sherte, sserte, shurte, scurte, scorte, either from Anglo-Saxon * sceorte or * scyrte (not found), or an assibilated form, due to association with the related adjective short (from Anglo-Saxon sceort), of skirt, skirte, from Icelandic skyrta, a shirt, a kind of kirtle, = Swedish skjorta, shört = Danish skjorte, a shirt, skjört, a petticoat, = Dutch schort = Middle Low German schorte = Middle High German schurz, German schurz, schürze, an apron; from the adjective, Anglo-Saxon sceort = Old High German scurz, short (cf. Icelandic skortr, shortness): see short. Doublet of skirt.
  2. from shirt, n.
 

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