aloha shirt
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.08 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A collared shirt of a type originating in Hawaii, often brilliantly colored with floral or Polynesian patterns.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of aloha shirt.
Example Sentences
- "At this election booth one of the officials wears the popular, brightly colored "aloha" shirt; the other a feather lei about his hat."
- "No Savile Row suit, no pure silk business ensemble, no costume of any sort, modern or ancient, can possibly beat the traditional aloha shirt for pure form-follows-function glory. Put on a real aloha shirt, with primary colors detonating all over the surface, and you couldn't hang on to a bummer of a mood if your sister was dating Saddam Hussein."
- "Emanuel was proud of his image reflected in the glass—tropical blooms covered every inch of his short-sleeved aloha shirt in a busy design of Hawaiian hibiscus, poinsettia, and bougainvillea."
- "The design motifs on the early 1930s aloha shirts were generally Japanese or Chinese and applied to the greige goods by roller printing in Japan."