| 单词 | ghost shirt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGhost Shirt Ghost Shirt n. (also with lower-case initial(s)) now chiefly historical a shirt or shirt-like garment created and worn by a Ghost Dancer, reputed to give the wearer spiritual powers and protection; cf. Ghost Dancer n.The most well-known power ascribed to the Ghost Shirt is the belief that the garment would render the wearer bulletproof (cf. quot. 2006). [Apparently after Ghost Dance n.] ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other bloody shirta1586 ruffle shirt1749 ruffled shirt1754 dicky1781 overshirt1805 camise1812 mill tog1821 boiled shirt1853 Crimean shirt1853 Crimea shirt1857 shirtwaist1859 shirt1867 polo shirt1887 zephyr1887 Ghost Shirt1890 Henley1890 negligée shirt1895 turtle-neck1897 rugby shirt1902 bush shirt1909 tunic shirt1918 safari shirt1921 button-down1924 thousand-miler1929 aloha shirt1936 buba1937 zoot shirt1942 Hawaiian shirt1955 sweater-shirt1964 beach shirt1966 kimono shirt1968 dashiki1969 1890 Clinton (Missouri) Eye 29 Nov. Ghost shirts warranted bullet proof, are now offered for sale for $5 each, by the Indians who, a week ago, refused to part with them at any price. 1971 D. Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee (1991) xviii. 434 Kicking Bear replied that if the Indians wore the sacred garments of the Messiah—Ghost Shirts painted with magic symbols—no harm could come to them. 2006 T. M. Kerstetter God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land iii. 91 Although several other tribes that practiced the Ghost Dance adopted the ghost shirt, only the Sioux imbued it with bulletproof qualities. < as lemmas |
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