Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Wearing a
shirtwaist .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word shirtwaisted.
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.
-
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
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.