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plural shirts
An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms. quotations examples
She had her shertes & gyrdyls of heere.
1509, John Fisher, A Mornynge Remembraunce […]
Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts.
1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.
2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport
An interior lining in a blast furnace. examples
A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game. examples
third-person singular simple present shirts, present participle shirting, simple past and past participle shirted
To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt. quotations examples
Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air.
1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I.