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aloha shirt en · NOUN

Etymology

Former trademark, coined by Ellery Chun.

Meanings

1. A collared shirt of a type originating in Hawaii, often brilliantly colored with floral or Polynesian patterns.
   • Emanuel was proud of his image reflected in the glass—tropical blooms covered every inch of his short-sleeved aloha shirt in a busy design of Hawaiian hibiscus, poinsettia, and bougainvillea. 1999 December 14, Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, New York: The Free Press, →ISBN, page 83:
   • No Savile Row suit, no pure silk business ensemble, no costume of any sort, modern or ancient, can possibly beat the traditional aloha shirt for pure form-follows-function glory. Put on a real aloha shirt, with primary colors detonating all over the surface, and you couldn't hang on to a bummer of a mood if your sister was dating Saddam Hussein. 1996 September, Patrick Mott, “100% Cotton Prozac”, in Orange Coast, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 28:
   • At this election booth one of the officials wears the popular, brightly colored "aloha" shirt; the other a feather lei about his hat. 1935, Travel, volumes 76-77:
   • The design motifs on the early 1930s aloha shirts were generally Japanese or Chinese and applied to the greige goods by roller printing in Japan. 2006 Spring, Linda B. Arthur, “The Aloha Shirt and Ethnicity in Hawai'i”, in Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, volume 4, number 1, Berg Publishers, →DOI, pages 8–34:

Forms

Synonyms

Hawaiian shirt

Translations (13)

pt camisa havaiana (Hawaiian shirt) · pl koszula hawajska (Hawaiian shirt) · ja ハワイアンシャツ (Hawaiian shirt) · ja アロハシャツ (Hawaiian shirt) · ko 하와이안 셔츠 (Hawaiian shirt) · ko 알로하 셔츠 (Hawaiian shirt) · it camicia hawaiana (Hawaiian shirt) · sv hawaiiskjorta (Hawaiian shirt) · fi havaijilaispaita (Hawaiian shirt) · ga léine Haváíoch (Hawaiian shirt) · af Hawaii-hemp (Hawaiian shirt) · haw palaka aloha (Hawaiian shirt) · de Hawaiihemd (Hawaiian shirt)