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dress shirt

noun

  1. a man's shirt worn for formal or semiformal evening dress, usually having French cuffs and a stiff or pleated front to be fastened with studs.
  2. a man's shirt, buttoning down the front and typically having long sleeves with barrel or French cuffs, and a soft or starched collar, worn with a necktie.


dress shirt

noun

  1. a man's shirt, usually white, worn as part of formal evening dress, usually having a stiffened or decorative front


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dress shirt1

First recorded in 1890–95

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Example Sentences

The governor, sans tie, wore a dress shirt and casual jacket onto the stage.

Five minutes later, wearing a dress shirt and jeans, Davenport appears.

Bergdahl was dressed in a white dress shirt with a blue tie and sporting plain pocket khaki pants.

Instead he emerges dripping wet from a bathtub and delicately buttons a dress shirt over his ripped, exposed torso.

Sander perfected the white dress shirt, crafting it with a perfectly cut collar and a slim-fitting sleekness.

At present his raiment is a disgrace, and he wears a dress-shirt like a crumpled sheet of the Pioneer.

I've got on your dress-shirt—— Made me look more like a ghost.

That is not a star on his chest, but a diamond pig, rampant on a field of dress-shirt.

It is imprudent to touch blacking in a dress-shirt, so Denry had to undo the past and begin again.

In a dress shirt of a color, as I recall, but it was not a sport shirt—and slacks.

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