[UNDER-1 5 a.] Underclothing; also, the fact of wearing, or of being worn, as underclothing.
1873. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, What to Wear? 70. She will then inform you, as a starting-point, that you do not probably wear one single article of clothing, from your bonnet to your underwear, which is healthfully constructed or properly worn.
1880. Scribner’s Mag., 213. The general want of underwear was not so cruelly felt as had been feared.
1885. T. M. Coan, Ounces of Prevention (1888), 10. Robust persons will get along well enough with the ordinary ‘mixed underwear.’
