boiled shirt
a formal or semiformal dress shirt with a starched front.
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How to use boiled shirt in a sentence
He had been known to remark: "The sight of a bloke in a boiled shirt makes me sick."
The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies | Frank WorthingtonThe village treasurer wore a "boiled shirt" and brass collar-buttons, but no collar or coat.
On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck | R. Pitcher WoodwardIt was a French civilian in evening dress—boiled shirt, white tie, and all—with a bowler hat bent to the storm.
Now It Can Be Told | Philip GibbsPhelan exploded, jumping to his feet and turning white as his boiled shirt.
Officer 666 | Barton W. CurrieDoudney came to the door in his bare feet, buttoning his suspenders over a clean boiled shirt.
Prairie Folks | Hamlin Garland
British Dictionary definitions for boiled shirt
informal a dress shirt with a stiff front
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