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  • adjective Wearing a shirtwaist.

Etymologies

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shirtwaist +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • There had even been certain little half-serious, half-jesting talks about the future into which there had entered the subject of a little delicatessen and restaurant in a desirable neighborhood, with Heiny in the kitchen, and a certain blonde, neat, white-shirtwaisted person in charge of the desk and front shop.

    Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926

  • A young lady, rather too transparently shirtwaisted but fair to look upon, asked what she could do for him.

    The Haunted Bookshop 1918

  • In contrast to the lonely dingy meal at the Hustler Dairy Lunch of his Zapp days, he sat next to a trimly shirtwaisted Nelly, fresh and enthusiastic after nine hours 'sleep.

    Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Dairy Lunch of his Zapp days, he sat next to a trimly shirtwaisted Nelly, fresh and enthusiastic after nine hours 'sleep.

    Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1914

  • There had even been certain little half-serious, half-jesting talks about the future into which there had entered the subject of a little delicatessen and restaurant in a desirable neighborhood, with Heiny in the kitchen, and a certain blonde, neat, white-shirtwaisted person in charge of the desk and front shop.

    Buttered Side Down 1911

  • _bier stuben_ of the thitherward thoroughfares, the Berlin that dances in the Joachimstrasse, where the _mädels_, each to herself a Cecilie, shirtwaisted, poor, happy, kick up their German heels, drink up their

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

  • Zapp days, he sat next to a trimly shirtwaisted Nelly, fresh and enthusiastic after nine hours’ sleep.

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • "reserved" table in the silly sham called Moulin Rouge; nor yet the more baby-glanced, shirtwaisted Ertrude laughing in the duntoned Café Lang.

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

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