Shirt-waist

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  shirtwaist \shirtwaist\, Shirt waist \Shirt waist\ [shirt +
     waist; see {waist[3]}, n.]
     1. A woman's blouse resembling a men's shirt in cut and
        style; -- in England called a {blouse}.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
  


     2. a type of woman's dress with a bodice tailored like a
        shirt; -- also called {shirt dress}, {shirtwaist dress},
        and {shirtwaister}. --[RHUD]
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shirtwaist
       n : a blouse with buttons down the front; "in England they call
           a shirtwaist a shirtwaister" [syn: {shirtwaister}]