shirt

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♦ shirt /ʃ'ɜːrt/ (shirts)
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A shirt is a piece of clothing that you wear on the upper part of your body. Shirts have a collar, sleeves, and buttons down the front.
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see also dress shirt, stuffed shirt, T-shirt, T-shirtdress shirt (dress shirts)
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A dress shirt is a special shirt which men wear on formal occasions. It is worn with a dinner jacket and bow tie.hair shirt (hair shirts)
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A hair shirt is a shirt made of rough uncomfortable cloth which some religious people used to wear to punish themselves.
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If you say that someone is wearing a hair shirt, you mean that they are trying to punish themselves to show they are sorry for something they have done.
No one is asking you to put on a hair shirt and give up all your luxuries.polo shirt (polo shirts)
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A polo shirt is a soft short-sleeved piece of clothing with a collar, which you put on over your head.stuffed shirt (stuffed shirts)
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If you describe someone, especially someone with an important position, as a stuffed shirt, you mean that they are extremely formal and old-fashioned. (INFORMAL)
In a pinstriped suit he instantly looked like a stuffed shirt.

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