Definition of "undervest" [un•der•vest]

• Chiefly British An undershirt. (noun)

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• "There was a fragment of a lovingly embroidered man's undervest."
• "And he would be wearing a mail undervest or suchlike protection of his more vital parts."
• "Alucius had also slipped on the nightsilk undervest over his undergarments."