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Definition of Shirttail
1. Noun. A brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article.
2. Noun. Fabric forming the tail of a shirt.
Definition of Shirttail
1. Noun. The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shirttail
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shirttail
Literary usage of Shirttail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"But at the end he published a "shirttail," in which I was misquoted again.
I have learned the hard way that in an argument of this kind the editor will ..."
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