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shirtwaist

noun shirt·waist \ˈshərt-ˌwāst\

Definition of SHIRTWAIST

:  a woman's tailored garment (as a blouse or dress) with details copied from men's shirts
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First Known Use of SHIRTWAIST

1879

Rhymes with SHIRTWAIST

bald-faced, barefaced, bold-faced, distaste, dough-faced, foretaste, impaste, lambaste, lightfaced, moonfaced, pie-faced, po-faced, posthaste, self-paced, shamefaced, snail-paced, slipcased, stone-faced, straight-faced, straitlaced, toothpaste, two-faced, unchaste, unplaced, white-faced

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