English Dictionary

shirtfront

noun

The front part of a shirt. / A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt. / (cricket) A pitch that is easy to bat on.

He adjusted his shirtfront before the meeting.

意味（1）

The front part of a shirt.

意味（2）

A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.

I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

意味（3）

(cricket) A pitch that is easy to bat on.

意味（4）

(Australian rules football) A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.

意味（5）

(real estate, slang) An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.

It is explained that a shirt front building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front.