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boiled shirt
noun
- a formal or semiformal dress shirt with a starched front.
boiled shirt
noun
- informal.a dress shirt with a stiff front
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Word History and Origins
Origin of boiled shirt1
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
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Example Sentences
He had been known to remark: "The sight of a bloke in a boiled shirt makes me sick."
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The village treasurer wore a "boiled shirt" and brass collar-buttons, but no collar or coat.
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It was a French civilian in evening dress—boiled shirt, white tie, and all—with a bowler hat bent to the storm.
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Phelan exploded, jumping to his feet and turning white as his boiled shirt.
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Doudney came to the door in his bare feet, buttoning his suspenders over a clean boiled shirt.
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