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shirting

ˈʃərtɪŋ
WordNet
A dancing farmer, a mug and a knife hanging from his shirt. Above: I. plug intestine.
A dancing farmer, a mug and a knife hanging from his shirt. Above: I. plug intestine.
  1. (n) shirting
    any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts
Illustrations
Woman from Strasbourg, seen from the front. with a high fur hat. A shirt with a small flat collar and wide sleeves is visible under a sleeveless overcoat with a wide, flat collar trimmed with fur. The shirt has a split at the center front. Ankle-length, gathered skirt trimmed with a wide fur trim. Long, wrinkled apron. Two long ribbons, coming from the back, in her hands.
Woman from Strasbourg, seen from the front. with a high fur hat. A shirt with a small flat collar and wide sleeves is visible under a sleeveless overcoat with a wide, flat collar trimmed with fur. The shirt has a split at the center front. Ankle-length, gathered skirt trimmed with a wide fur trim. Long, wrinkled apron. Two long ribbons, coming from the back, in her hands.
White linen shirt, presumably worn by Hendrik Casimir I during the storming of a fort near Hulst. With a small lace band on the collar and cuffs. Full of bloodstains, all torn and half digested.
White linen shirt, presumably worn by Hendrik Casimir I during the storming of a fort near Hulst. With a small lace band on the collar and cuffs. Full of bloodstains, all torn and half digested.
Classic bust of a bearded man in a shirt. The print is part of an album with a series of prints after the sculptures in Gerard Reynst's collection.
Classic bust of a bearded man in a shirt. The print is part of an album with a series of prints after the sculptures in Gerard Reynst's collection.
An emblem with two representations. Above a landscape with a lance dressed in a shirt. Under a landscape with one stalk of grain from which a Christian crockery grows. It concerns the currencies of Sultan Saladin and Bayezid II.
An emblem with two representations. Above a landscape with a lance dressed in a shirt. Under a landscape with one stalk of grain from which a Christian crockery grows. It concerns the currencies of Sultan Saladin and Bayezid II.
Two 'robes chemisiers' (shirt dresses) in the fabric 'Deauville' natural silk, washable. One is finely checked in light blue on white; the other striped in blue and white on a light blue background. Fabrics from Chatillon, Mouly, Roussel. Print from the fashion magazine Très Parisien (1920-1936).
Two 'robes chemisiers' (shirt dresses) in the fabric 'Deauville' natural silk, washable. One is finely checked in light blue on white; the other striped in blue and white on a light blue background. Fabrics from Chatillon, Mouly, Roussel. Print from the fashion magazine Très Parisien (1920-1936).
A boy in a shirt, loincloth and turban poses on a lawn in the Victoria Park Gardens in Colombo city. Part of the family album Dutch East Indies.
A boy in a shirt, loincloth and turban poses on a lawn in the Victoria Park Gardens in Colombo city. Part of the family album Dutch East Indies.
Resting girl with blond hair in a blue skirt and white shirt.
Resting girl with blond hair in a blue skirt and white shirt.
Face of a smiling boy in a shirt with dotted tie. In the background a landscape with a parked caravan.
Face of a smiling boy in a shirt with dotted tie. In the background a landscape with a parked caravan.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The origin of right-handed buttons on men's shirts stems from battles where they wore armor. With most men being right handed the armor needed to overlap so that a sword could not enter through the gap during a right-handed blow from an adversary.
  1. Shirting
    Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The slowest trainee on the SEALs obstacle course must wear a pink T-shirt that reads, "Always a Lady".
  1. (n) shirting
    Any fabric designed for making shirts. Specifically
  2. (n) shirting
    Stout cotton cloth such as is suitable for shirts: when used without qualification, the term signifies plain white bleached cotton.
  3. (n) shirting
    Shirts collectively.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Shirting
    cloth for shirts: shirts collectively
Quotations
Oliver Goldsmith
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
Oliver Goldsmith
Douglas William Jerrold
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Douglas William Jerrold
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
John Heywood
Idioms

Keep your shirt on! - This idiom is used to tell someone to calm down.

Lose your shirt - If someone loses their shirt, they lose all their money through a bad investment, gambling, etc.

Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Scand.; Ice. skyrta—skortr, shortness.

Usage in the news

The Blockers made T-shirts and put stickers on their cars. nytimes.com

0Jennifer Garner (in Monique Lhuiller) looked radiant at the Argo premiere in L.A. Christina Aguilera Flashes Leopard Bra Under Sheer Shirt on The Voice. usmagazine.com

After a long hot summer, people were quick to trade in their T-shirts for warmer attire. kbtx.com

A grand package of the book and a T-shirt will sell for $20. tribstar.com

Orange T-shirts showed support for the mine. blog.pe.com

A neatly folded T-shirt sits on a table in the outer office of state Sen Bill Ketron of Murfreesboro. marshalltribune.com

The names listed on the back of this 1999 Day in the Garden attendee's shirt will not be appearing at the Woodstock site in Bethel this year. sc-democrat.com

He gets his shirts straight from Paris. nationalreview.com

Shirts convey simple, everyday message. mysanantonio.com

Hand-printed T-shirts, vintage ties and scarves. ashingtonpost.com

A few weeks ago, I saw that JCPenney was getting attacked online for a t-shirt they were selling for girls that said "I'm too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me". kkyr.com

JCPenney coward down to the public and pulled the shirt from their website. kkyr.com

At so many road races these days, it is prudent to enter early, especially when only the first to do so receive commemorative shirts. telegram.com

Robert Harting needs another shirt, and that's a good thing for Germany. espn.go.com

Shaky Shirt lets consumers shake an iPhone to view T-shirt recommendations. internetretailer.com

Usage in scientific papers

Thanks to Alan Hammond for many relevant conversations, and to a kind friend, Michael Shirts, for managing my thesis submission at Stanford while I was in Paris.
Random Surfaces

In this task, a group of six students (shown in figure 3) serve as two teams, one with white shirts and one with black.
The role of context and culture in teaching physics: The implication of disciplinary differences

Your task is to see how well you can concentrate by counting the number of passes among the members of the white-shirted team.
The role of context and culture in teaching physics: The implication of disciplinary differences

Free energy perturbation (FEP) is an important category of methods for free energy calculation; we refer to the recent works by Lu et al.1 and by Shirts and Pande5 for review and comparisons.
Determination of the chemical potential using energy-biased sampling

There is a striking similarity in the patterns we observe in a crumpled ball of paper, a crushed aluminium can or, for that matter, the creases that develop on the back of one’s shirt when one’s back has been up against the wall a little too long.
How paper folds: bending with local constraints

Usage in literature

The costume of the Seminole warrior at home consists of a shirt, a neckerchief, a turban, a breech cloth, and, very rarely, moccasins. "The Seminole Indians of Florida" by Clay MacCauley

And, off to one side, stood several men in their shirt sleeves superintending the performances. "The Moving Picture Girls" by Laura Lee Hope

A shirt to end all shirts! "Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung" by Victor Appleton

I've ironed twenty shirts in one-half a day. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves" by Work Projects Administration

His coat and shirt were in rags. "The Yukon Trail" by William MacLeod Raine

The bird's feathers opened like a shirt and out of the feather shirt stepped a handsome youth. "The Laughing Prince" by Parker Fillmore

Then she made some little white silk shirts, and as she had learned witchcraft from her mother, she sewed a spell into every one of them. "The Fairy Book" by Dinah Maria Mulock (AKA Miss Mulock)

A few weeks later, Williams, returning unexpectedly to the bunk-house, found Saunders changing his shirt preparatory to a ride to town. "Overland Red" by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Then I put on a shirt. "Chapters from My Autobiography" by Mark Twain

Terry ran upstairs, turned up the light, ripped off his white clothes and slipped into riding clothes and flannel shirt. "Terry" by Charles Goff Thomson

Usage in poetry
Oh, sirs! it was a piteous thing
To see how they had vainly tried
With strips of shirts, and bits of string,
To stay life's ebbing tide!
"Under One Blanket" by James Barron Hope
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, title of the tale:
He of that name,
A tall, glum fellow, velvet cloaked, with a shirt of mail,
Two eyes like flame.
"After The Play" by Robert Graves Author object (568)
And, as thou takest off thy clothes,
All but thy shirt, to seek repose,
Think how thy all must be resign'd,
Besides thy shrowd, and left behind.
"Things, To Be Consider'd, And Made Use Of, When Night Comes" by Rees Prichard
Your pardon, young Sir,
But my nose and my sword
Are proving themselves
In quite perfect accord.
I grieve to have spotted
Your shirt. On my word!
"The Foreigner" by Amy Lowell Author object (856)
PALEY VOLLAIRE, with many a groan,
Gave FREDERICK all that he called his own, -
Two shirts and a sock, and a vest of jean,
A Wellington boot and a bamboo cane.
"The Baby's Vengeance" by William Schwenck Gilbert Author object (717)
Sell all thy goods — sell all thy land —
Sell e'en the shirt upon thy back —
Sell all thou hast at thy command —
Rather than thou God's Word shou'dst lack.
"Advice To Hear, And To Read, The Word Of God" by Rees Prichard