Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An undershirt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An undershirt; a shirt worn next the skin: generally a trade use.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An undershirt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
vest (worn underneath a shirt)
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Examples
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There was a fragment of a lovingly embroidered man's undervest.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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And he would be wearing a mail undervest or suchlike protection of his more vital parts.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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Through the gash in the black fabric, he could see at least one splash of metal flattened against the nightsilk outer layer of his undervest.
Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003
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While he was wearing the fleece and nightsilk undervest, Alucius still wished he had on his nightsilk skull mask.
Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003
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From what he had been able to tell from the metal splashed across his nightsilk-covered undervest, he'd actually been hit twice, almost at the same time.
Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003
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Alucius had also slipped on the nightsilk undervest over his undergarments.
Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003
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At the sight of me standing there in street clothes a large man wearing what looked like a cotton undervest over a swelling paunch advanced with waving arms and shooed me out.
Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981
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Meggie crouched down beside his discarded shirt and undervest to watch, awed.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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"What sort of weather this morning?" demanded M. Godefroy curtly, as he buttoned his undervest of gray swandown upon a stomach that was already
The Lost Child 1894 Fran��ois Edouard Joachim Copp��e
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In one of the old regiments on brigade drill we saw an officer, probably a sergeant, in a checked knit undervest, his neck and part of his arms bare -- commanding a company.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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