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T-shirt

[tee-shurt]
–noun
a lightweight, usually knitted, pullover shirt, close-fitting and with a round neckline and short sleeves, worn as an undershirt or outer garment.
Also, tee-shirt.
Also called T, tee.


Origin:
1940–45; named from its shape
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T-shirt also tee shirt   (tē'shûrt')
n.  
  1. A short-sleeved, collarless undershirt.

  2. An outer shirt of a design similar to the T-shirt.


[Perhaps from its being shaped like the letter T when spread out.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

T-shirt 
1920, in allusion to the shape it makes when laid out flat.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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