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shirting

shirting

1 5.3
Cloth people use to make shirts, especially men's dress shirts
  • noun
  • /ˈʃɜrtɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : tela para camisas
  • He chose a soft cotton shirting fabric to make a new dress shirt.
  • red shirting

Examples

  • I think I'll make one for myself in a shirting and see how it fits into my wardrobe.

    Blog text (1)

  • No red-shirting for Charlie.

    Blog text (15)

  • The brown shirting of officials in executive departments has been a key part of this.

    Blog text (8)

  • It's I call it the shirting of Leathers.

  • The many discussions I've had with other parents about early reading have reminded me of a phenomenon that seems to be popular these days: red-shirting.

    Blog text (15)

  • Like parents, social scientists are interested in empirically determining if delaying the age of entry into kindergarten, sometimes referred to as "academic red-shirting," has potential benefits for children.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The tailor recommended several colors of shirting for my custom suit.

  • She prefers high-quality shirting for her collection of dress shirts.

Synonyms

fabric
vsshirting
252 1.0

Cloth made by weaving or knitting fibers used for clothes and curtains

is specific to making men's dress garments rather than general textiles

How Heavy

midweight
3.9
shirting
  • Specialized
1 5.3
lightweight
36 2.8
sheer
12 4.0

Surface Forms

shirting singular
shirting plural

Morphology

shirting = shirt (semi-transparent) = shirt + ing

The word is clearly based on 'shirt', but the specialized sense 'fabric for making shirts' is a lexicalized extension rather than a fully literal composition.

Etymology

Shirting comes from shirt + -ing and simply means the cloth used to make shirts. The word shirt originally meant 'short' because shirts were once short garments, so shirting is literally 'material for a shirt'.