(UNDER-1 5 a.)
1794. Mrs. Opie, in Brightwell, Memorials, etc. (1851), 42. His green coat and crimson under-waistcoat.
1826. Southey, Vind. Eccl. Angl., 251. The blessed Arnulph of the hedgehog skin underwaistcoat.
1838. Lytton, Alice, II. ii. His black coat neatly relieved in the evening by a white underwaistcoat.
1863. N. & Q., 3rd Ser. III. 50. In some parts of Yorkshire … an underwaistcoat or ‘Jersey’ is called a ‘singlet.’
