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[1] The shirt was an item of clothing that only men could wear as underwear, until the twentieth century. [2] Although the women's chemise was a closely related garment to the men's, it is the men's garment that became the modern shirt. [3] In the Middle Ages, it was a plain, undyed garment worn next to the skin and under regular garments.
[6] [7] [8] The word did not originate in Christianized Anglo-Saxon England as an acronym of "Fornication Under Consent of King"; Modern English was not spoken until the 16th century, and words such as "fornication" and "consent" did not exist in any form in English until the influence of Anglo-Norman in the late 12th century.
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
For example, multiple e-mail addresses in the "To" field in some e-mail clients have to be delimited by a semicolon. In Microsoft Excel, the semicolon is used as a list separator, especially in cases where the decimal separator is a comma, such as 0,32; 3,14; 4,50, instead of 0.32, 3.14, 4.50.
Various new and different forms of collar emerged in the 1920s. They diminished in sizes by the 1950s, [3] but were often large in the 1930s. [3] The silk 'jumper blouse' [3] and the low-cut 'V-neck shirt' (or Chelsea collared blouse) [3] were the fashion hit of the 1920s. [3] They had full length, short, 3 ⁄ 4 length and bell shaped sleeves. [3]
A woman wearing a pink V-neck T-shirt T-shirt day in Leipzig, Germany. A T-shirt (also spelled tee shirt, or tee for short) is a style of fabric shirt named after the T shape of its body and sleeves. Traditionally, it has short sleeves and a round neckline, known as a crew neck, which lacks a collar. T-shirts are generally made of stretchy ...
A traditional knit jersey. Traditionally, a jersey is an item of knitted clothing, generally made of wool or cotton, with sleeves, worn as a pullover, as it does not open at the front, unlike a cardigan.
Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's, will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology. [1] Etymological dictionaries are the product of research in historical linguistics. For many words in any language, the etymology will be uncertain, disputed, or simply unknown.