Henley meaning

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The definition of a henley is a crew neck knit shirt with a banded collar and a multi-button placket that extends from the neck to the middle of the chest, or a city in England on the River Thames.

A cotton shirt with a banded collar and a placket is an example of a henley.

The site of the oldest rowing regatta in Europe is an example of Henley.

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A collarless knit shirt with long or short sleeves and buttons extending partway down the front.
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A town of south-central England west of London, noted for its annual rowing regatta (established 1839).
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A knit shirt, top, etc. typically having a crew neck with a band collar, and a buttoned placket.
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City in SE England, on the Thames: site of an annual rowing regatta.
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A type of knit shirt with a front placket but no collar.
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Origin of henley

  • After Henley where such shirts were traditionally worn by crews rowing in the annual regatta held there

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the town of Henley in England, where the rowers wore shirts of this type

    From Wiktionary

Henley Sentence Examples

  • In Henley Street, close by, is the house in which the poet was born, greatly altered in external appearance, being actually two halftimbered cottages connected.

  • The buildings lie close to the Thames, and the school is famous for rowing, sending an eight to the regatta at Henley each year.

  • The treatise on husbandry of Walter of Henley, dating from the early 13th century, is very valuable as describing the management of the demesne under the twoor three-field system.

  • The literature of agriculture, in abeyance since the treatise of Walter of Henley, makes another beginning in the 16th century.

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