# shirting

Pronunciation: say "SHUR-ting" US /ˈʃɝtɪŋ/, UK /ˈʃɜːtɪŋ/

## Noun

1. Fabric of any kind that is used to make shirts.
   - Simple: Cloth that is woven and used for making shirts.
   - _The tailor ordered several bolts of fine cotton shirting._
   - _This shirting is too thin to hold a crisp collar._
2. Shirts considered collectively as a group rather than one by one.
   - Simple: Shirts taken all together and thought of as one group.
   - _The valet returned a week's worth of shirting neatly pressed._
   - _He packed all his shirting for the long voyage abroad._

## Origin

Formed from 'shirt' combined with the suffix '-ing'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/shirting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).