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Definition of Off-the-shoulder
1. Adjective. Not covering the shoulders (especially in the case of a blouse or dress).
Definition of Off-the-shoulder
1. Adjective. (context: of a garment) not covering the shoulders. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Off-the-shoulder
Literary usage of Off-the-shoulder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Market Assistant: Containing a Brief Description of Every Article of by Thomas Farrington De Voe (1867)
"Next take off the shoulder by cutting straight across the side, as shown fig.
1 (B); then trim off the spare-ribs, by cutting under the breast-bone, ..."
2. A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints by Astley Cooper, Bransby Blake Cooper (1851)
"The patient, as soon as the accident has happened, feels as if his arm were
falling off, the shoulder dropping with a great sense of weight, and there being ..."
3. Hotel Meat Cooking: Comprising Hotel and Restaurant Fish and Oyster Cooking by Jessup Whitehead (1901)
"For cutlets proceed with the side of lan,b the Mime as with mutton, Hiking off
the shoulder, I3g and brisket. Take off the buck bone the whole length in one ..."
4. The Cook's Own Book and Housekeeper's Register: Being Receipts for Cooking by N. K. M. Lee, Mrs N K M Lee (1842)
"It is a pretty general custom, when you take off the shoulder from the ribs, to
squeeze a Seville orange over them, and sprinkle them with a little pepper ..."
5. Air Bag Safety: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science edited by Larry Pressler (1998)
"Alison Sanders, 7, slipped off the shoulder strap to adjust the radio. The automakers
should have foreseen that children would, on occasion, slip the strap ..."
6. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"... carried one of the bars off the shoulder-strap of Captain Bliss, of General
Newton's staff, who was standing near, and finished its work by slightly ..."
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