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- Spanish · borrowed fromcamisa de chino
- English todaycamisa de chino
From Spanish camisa de chino. Cognate with Tagalog kamisa tsino.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: a thin cotton collarless cuffless shirt with a few buttons extending a short distance below the neckline (either sleeveless or sleeved, ascribed to Chinese laborers during and before the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines) Full definition →
From Spanish camisa de chino. Cognate with Tagalog kamisa tsino.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.