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- noun Plural form of
shirt-waist .
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Examples
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Tourists came and went, and pretty girls on their noon hour passed by in twos and threes, wearing the wide-brimmed straw hats and crisp white shirt-waists that had become the fashion.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Tourists came and went, and pretty girls on their noon hour passed by in twos and threes, wearing the wide-brimmed straw hats and crisp white shirt-waists that had become the fashion.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The boys were all dressed in shirt-waists and skirts, with neat white collars and little bows of various kinds.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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The boys were all dressed in shirt-waists and skirts, with neat white collars and little bows of various kinds.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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The rotund woman with a short waist, sketched in No. 54, may improve her figure, as shown in No. 55, by choosing belts and collars the exact shade of her shirt-waists in summer, and by not cutting off her height by any sort of outside belt on winter gowns.
What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley
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Still, she was an honest soul: she found more fault with what she called Miss Cameron's "shirt-waists" than with Miss Cameron herself, whom she didn't doubt to be a good woman though she would never see thirty-five again.
The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan
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The boys were all dressed in shirt-waists and skirts, with neat white collars and little bows of various kinds.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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Time and observation would no doubt mend or remodel the shirt-waists; and meanwhile both they and Miss Cameron would do very well for East Elgin, Mrs Forsyth avowed.
The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan
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When bidding don't get excited and think you're attending an auction of shirt-waists at a fire-sale.
You Should Worry Says John Henry Hugh McHugh
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"University" -- because one of the preachers insisted upon preaching so much that the students got no chance to study; also because he sent home a rich man's daughter whose shirt-waists revealed too much of her fleshly nature.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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