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Definition of Shirting
1. Noun. Any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts.
Definition of Shirting
1. n. Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.
Definition of Shirting
1. Noun. Any fabric used to make shirts ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shirting
1. fabric used for making shirts [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shirting
Literary usage of Shirting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of by Great Exhibition, Robert Ellis (1851)
"G02 Silk crape, or gauze shirting and sheeting, called Halali. ... 1)27 Sample
of the silk with which the gauze shirting is made. ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"... so it could not have been contemplated that the board should be changed to
suit shirting political organizations that might subsequently be made. ..."
3. Textile design and colour by William Watson (1912)
"... Sateen Grounds—Zephyr Stripes and Checks—Oxford shirting Cloths—Harvard
shirtings—Wool and Union shirtings—Combination of Bedford Cord and Pique Weaves. ..."
4. A Historical Collection from Official Records, Files, &c., of the Part by Royal Ralph Hinman (1842)
"... woolen cloths for vests and breeches, linen shirting, tow cloth, shoes,
stockings, yarn and linen, felt hats, one pipe of wine, Madeira, Lisbon, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Damages: Embracing an Elementary Exposition of the by Jabez Gridley Sutherland (1893)
"It is a promise to pay blank yards of cotton shirting, and void for uncertainty.
Expunge the $250, or what is virtually the same thing, decide that it is ..."
6. Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property: With References by Judah Philip Benjamin, Arthur Beilby Pearson, Hugh Fenwick Boyd, Charles Lyon Corbin (1884)
"There being no market for the kind of shirting contracted for, the plaintiff
procured shirtings of a better quality at a higher price, in order to fulfill ..."
7. The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms: With a by Peter Lund Simmonds (1858)
"shirting, a kind or calico or long loth, mudo to imitate and supersede linen.
SHIRT-MAKER, a sempstress; a tradesman who employs females to make shirts. ..."
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