Word: undershirt
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...shape of the Greek letter ψ. This garment is quite the same in the Roman and Eastern Church. Dalmatic and Tunicle. This is a sort of fancy kimona with a slit up both sides flashed with fringes. It is flowered with embroidery. Surplice, which was at first an undershirt to keep the cold-blooded monks and abbots warm and, to be proper, must still be worn with the alb. It has long, loose, open sleeves, a gathered yolk at the neck, and drops to the knees like the skin of a ribless umbrella. Stole. A narrow strip of embroidered work...
...Mabel's Room (Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford). The old stage farce which became entangled with the police in 1924 has been revived, slightly pasteurized, for the screen. It is a story of a girl's silk undershirt and how it pursued her doggedly through various love affairs. It is a farce of the frantic, door-slamming variety, and fairly funny...
Wise deans would be quick to realize that this is no Utopian scheme. Its ofticacy is scientifically assured. For who can contest the overwhelming evidence in support of the theory that when a man has divested himself of his coat, his vest, his shirt, and his undershirt he comes to himself...
...arrived. Each team lined up with eleven men in the first game. The McGill men appeared dressed after the English fashion and consequently made a much better impression than did the University eleven whose members appeared on the field attired in a dark pair of trousers, a white undershirt, which had the advantage of ripping when seized, and a magenta handkerchief tied upon the head as was traditional with the crews. The clothing survived the first match which, being played under the Harvard rules, was not as rough as the second played under the McGill Rugby rules...
...woman existed and finally made themselves comfortable in a hidden wilderness. When they arrived, via a gorge of rapids, the woman had no standard equipment at all (her bathing suit had been torn off by the torrent's claws) and the man had only a coat, trousers, undershirt and a hunting knife. Before the rescue, a good many weeks later, they were living in a log bungalow with a full line of cooking utensils, clothes and toilet articles. Manufacture of these things did not interest the producers (quite properly). They were forced for reasons of dramatic necessity to stress...