Shirts protect the upper parts of body from weather. Besides, they add beauty to our appearance. They hide some fatty and hairy parts on our chest and waist.
Here is a multiple choice vocabulary test based on 'adjectives which described "shirts" '.
Pl. fill in the blanks in question Nos. 081 to 090, selecting appropriate phrases from the Choice BOx, noting down your answers on a slip of paper.
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Your answers need not tally with the key. Selection of words and phrases is always an individual prerogative.
CHOICE BOX
ADJECTIVAL PHRASES DESCRIBING 'SHIRTS'
Arsenal shirt
Baggy shirt
Boiled shirt (cowboy slang for a clean shirt)
Boy shirt
Buckskin shirt
Calico shirt
Cargo shirt
Checked shirt
Clean shirt
Coarse unwashed shirt
Cotton shirt
Casual shirt
Cricket shirt
Delf blue silk shirt
Designer shirt
Dwarf shirt
Embroidered shirt
Embroidered cargo shirt
Flannel shirt
Football shirt
Formal shirt
Formal dress shirt
Golf shirt
Hair shirt
Hawaiian shirt
Hunting shirt
Knit shirt
Lady shirt
Linen cargo shirt
Linen shirt
Long sleeve shirt
Long sleeved work shirt
Night shirt
Office shirt
Polo shirt
Ragged shirt
Red shirt
Ruffled shirt
Rugby shirt
Rugged cargo shirt
Short sleeve shirt
Silk shirt
Sleeved cargo shirt
Slip-lak shirt
Sports shirt
Starched shirt
Stiff shirt
Stylish cargo shirt
Sweat shirt
Funny t-shirt
T-shirt
Tan cargo shirt
Tennis shirt
Threadworn shirt
Trade shirt
Unfastened shirt
Woolen shirt
Work shirt
Woven shirt
Wrinkled shirt
081. On other horns hung jerked bear's meat and venison hams, and gourds for drinking cups, and bags of seed, and my father's best _______ shirt; also, in a neglected corner, several articles of woman's attire from pegs. [Winston Churchill in his 'The Crossing'].
082. He had the finely molded features we see in portraits of handsome ancestors, seeming to call for curling hair a little longish, and a rich profusion of _______ shirt. But his hair was sternly short, his shirt severely plain, his proudly carried head spoke of effort rather than of ease in its attitude. [C.P. Gilman in his 'What Diantha did'].
083. Mr. Julius Van Hee is what is popularly known in the United States as "a live wire." He is a shirt-sleeve diplomatist who, if he thought the occasion warranted it, would not hesitate to conduct diplomatic negotiations in his _____-shirt. [E. Alexander Powell in his book 'Fighting in Flanders'].
084. He wore tweed pants, green with age, and strapped on the inside with a lighter-coloured and newer material; also a very dirty coloured ______ shirt, open in front, and showing a large expanse of hairy chest. [A.B. Paterson in his 'An Outback Marriage'].
085. Needed a bright young fellow to help him--someone who could wear good clothes and not look as if he were in a disguise, and could spit out his words without chewing them up. Would Thorn join him on a grub, duds, and commission basis? Would Thorn surprise his skin with a ______ shirt and his stomach with a broiled steak? [George Horace Lorimer in his book 'Old Gorgon Graham'].
086. 'I flung off my nightgown and cap; I put on a coarse ________ shirt, a worn frock without waistcoat, an old round hat; these things I had sent for, some days ago, in the fear of what might happen. [Thomas Carlyle in his 'French Revolution'].
087. "He took a locket from his _______ shirt and opened it. A curly-headed, dimpled little youngster laughed out at me. [Rex Beach in his novel 'Pardners'].
088. Mrs. Tossell bethought her of certain garments in a press upstairs--a frock and some underclothing long since outgrown by Sabina, a __________ shirt and a suit that had formerly habited Obed, her youngest. [Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch in 'True Tilda'].
089. He himself is half dressed in an __________ shirt and an immense dressing-gown, once gorgeous, now food-splashed and dirty, as it serves him for towel, handkerchief, duster, and every other use to which a textile fabric can be put by a slovenly man. [George Bernard Shaw in his Play 'The Great Catherine'].
090. For under his pretty ________ shirt, which Miss Morgan had forced on him in the hurry of departure, his heart was beating like a little windmill in a gale [W.A. White in his 'The Court of Boyville'].
