shirt-tail
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shirt-tail noun
- The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
- (by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.
- A tenuous connection.
- A distant kinship.
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