or wrought-shirt, illustrated-shirt, subs. (old).—A shirt or shift worked or woven with pictures or texts.
1596. JONSON, Every Man out of his Humour, iv., 6. I wonder he speaks not of his WROUGHT-SHIRT.
1639. MAYNE, The Citye Match, ii. 2.
| My smock-sleeves have such holy embroideries, | |
| And are so learned, that I fear, in time, | |
| All my apparel will be quoted by | |
| Some pure instructor. |
1647. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Custom of the Country, ii., 1.
| Having a mistress, sure you should not be | |
| Without a neat HISTORICAL SHIRT. |
1848. Punch, XIV., 226, ‘The Model Gentleman.’ He never broke a bank…. He shuns cross-barred trousers…. His linen is not ILLUSTRATED, but beautifully clean.
1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I., 51. Colored, or ILLUSTRATED SHIRTS, as they are called, are especially objected to by the men.
1889. Puck’s Library, April, p. 12, ‘A Confession.’
| Being an educated man, | |
| I feel ten thousand woes | |
| Cavorting for the populace | |
| In ILLUSTRATED CLOTHES. |
