underdrawers

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ drawers.

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Noun

underdrawers pl (plural only)

1. (dated) underwear; undergarments.
   • 1901, Maurice Hewlett, The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay‎^[1]:

     They put on her a purple vest, thickly embroidered with gold and pearls, underdrawers of scarlet silk, and gauze trousers (such as Eastern women wear) of many folds.

   • 1916, Jackson Gregory, The Short Cut‎^[2]:

     Then, his laughter suddenly booming out he bunched his muscles and a black haired giant of a man in shirt and underdrawers was jerked floundering out of his bunk to the middle of the room.

   • 1919, Peter B. Kyne, Captain Scraggs‎^[3]:

     He was quite an imposing spectacle in his bare feet, with his trousers rolled up to his great knees, thereby revealing his scarlet flannel underdrawers.

   • 1921, William Patterson White, The Heart of the Range‎^[4]:

     His extra shirt, instead of being wadded into the fore-end of the saddlebag on top of a pair of socks, had been stuffed into the hinder end on top of a pair of underdrawers.