Definitions
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- noun heavy-duty shirts worn for manual or physical work
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Examples
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For a few seconds she fumbled and did something to the breast of his cotton work-shirt.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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He was wearing a battleship gray work-shirt with his name monogrammed on one pocket.
Man Loses Life 2010
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Oscar-nominated Farnsworth gets the role of his career, inhabiting the weathered Alvin like a favorite old work-shirt.
John Farr: To Celebrate Spring, The Best Road Movies By Farr 2009
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Oscar-nominated Farnsworth gets the role of his career, inhabiting the weathered Alvin like a favorite old work-shirt.
John Farr: In An Accelerated World - Ten Movies to Soothe the Soul 2008
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Russell dressed every day in khaki pants and a blue work-shirt - I like to move from jeans and t-shirts to silk trousers and fabulous finery.
Paying the Rent Susan Palwick 2008
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George had found himself impressed against his will, as had the rest of the Scouts; the old man still wore his hair in two long, iron-gray braids and a bone necklace under his plain work-shirt.
Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999
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And something that looked as if it might be a genuine, worn-out World War II flight jacket covered a faded work-shirt stretched across his broad chest.
Cold Noses Warm Kisses Stewardson, Dawn 1992
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Above the faded brown of his work-shirt, his face glowed with color.
The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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For a few seconds she fumbled and did something to the breast of his cotton work-shirt.
Chapter 12 1913
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Oscar-nominated Farnsworth gets the role of his career, inhabiting the weathered Alvin like a favorite old work-shirt.
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