hori shirt
- noun
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camisa hori
- Her blue hori shirt featured a floral design popular in traditional Japanese patterns.
Examples
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Many tourists buy a hori shirt as a souvenir when visiting Japan.
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He wore a hori shirt to the summer festival.
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He wore a beautiful hori shirt to the festival.
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Did you see her new hori shirt?
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He wore a hori shirt to the summer festival.
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Many tourists buy a hori shirt as a souvenir when visiting Japan.
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Her blue hori shirt featured a floral design popular in traditional Japanese patterns.
How Traditional
Surface Forms
Morphology
hori + shirt
The noun 'shirt' clearly signals a garment, so a learner who knows both constituents would infer this is a type/kind of shirt. However 'hori' is not an English lexical element (it's a culture-specific/foreign label) and does not transparently convey the festival/traditional sense, so the full cultural and functional meaning is not predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Hori shirt is a traditional Japanese shirt often seen at festivals; one popular story says the name comes from a short, loose shirt that festival helpers wore, and that short shirt was called hori. Those helpers carried heavy floats and worked in the streets, so the image of their simple shirts became linked to festival dress, which is why hori shirt now means a traditional, 'casual' shirt for 'festivals' and everyday wear.