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Discover LudwigThe word "undershirt" is correct and well written.
It is typically used to refer to a shirt worn underneath another shirt, often for added warmth or comfort.
Example: "He wore an undershirt to keep warm during the chilly evening."
Alternatives: "T-shirt" or "base layer."
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undershirt
noun
An undergarment worn beneath a shirt, typically collarless and sleeveless.
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Barclay removed his finger, wincing again at the soft pop, and wiped his finger on Trusdale's undershirt.
James Patrick Donleavy stands in the kitchen of the estate house called Levington Park, dressed in layers: white undershirt, checked cinnamon button-down, padded navy vest, and tweed sports jacket.
Students of the case are left to wonder why Ryder, who makes several million dollars a movie and paid for about thirty-seven hundred dollars' worth of merchandise at Saks that day, chose to pilfer, among other things, a seven-hundred-and-sixty-dollar Marc Jacobs thermal undershirt, a five-hundred-and-forty-dollar Natori handbag, and a two-hundred-and-twelve-dollar hair bow.
His undershirt was torn, and blood ran down it from bad cuts on his chin and back.
One evening, as we walked through Boerum Hill, he suddenly stopped and said, "Take a few steps back and look at that guy!" Framed in a parlor-floor window, an obese man in headphones and an undershirt sat before a screen, absorbed in a game, his back to the warm April night.
He wore plaid pajama pants, a white undershirt, and flip-flops.
The pharmacist, who lived above the clinic, had come down wearing a loincloth and undershirt.
When I arrived, his uncle was asleep in an undershirt on the veranda, and his aunt was sleeping inside, on the floor.
A little warmth wouldn't have hurt, though, a couple of days when I didn't have to wear both a sweater and a long undershirt, these beneath a hideous plastic poncho.
There might not be a way to quantify the advantage a football player gets from a well-designed undershirt, but in speed skating it is theoretically possible to judge exactly which suit makes skaters fastest.
There was a uniform inspection, and Bareikis was found to be wearing an undershirt on which he'd painted the Lithuanian flag.
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