a knit shirt, top, etc. typically having a crew neck with a band collar, and a buttoned placket
Origin of henley
after Henley: style based on the shirt worn by rowers in the regatta held there
A street in Henley.
- 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.
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.
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Henley
city in SE England, on the Thames: site of an annual rowing regatta
also Henley-on-Thames
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noun
pl. hen·leysA collarless knit shirt with long or short sleeves and buttons extending partway down the front.
Origin of henley
After Henley where such shirts were traditionally worn by crews rowing in the annual regatta held thereHenley
or Hen·ley-on-Thames
A town of south-central England west of London, noted for its annual rowing regatta (established 1839).x
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Origin
From the town of Henley in England, where the rowers wore shirts of this type
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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.
- He was made field marshal in 1793,and died at Henley-on-Thames on the 9th of July 1795.
- In his later years he dabbled in literature and the drama, and interested himself in arboriculture in his retirement at Henley-on-Thames.
- 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.
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