dress shirt

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noun

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.

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.

Nearby words

dress form, dress goods, dress parade, dress rehearsal, dress shield, dress shirt, dress suit, dress uniform, dress up, dress-down, dress-down friday

Compare sport shirt.

Origin of dress shirt

First recorded in 1890–95

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Examples from the Web for dress shirt

I rather delight in lolling around in a dress-shirt; it looks so like the pictures we see in the fashionable novels.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)|Various
"Robert Browning," replied the lady, with a look of scorn, and the dress-shirt sank again.
Miss Primrose|Roy Rolfe Gilson
I've got on your dress-shirt—— Made me look more like a ghost.
Ann Arbor Tales|Karl Edwin Harriman
At present his raiment is a disgrace, and he wears a dress-shirt like a crumpled sheet of the Pioneer.
Under the Deodars|Rudyard Kipling

That is not a star on his chest, but a diamond pig, rampant on a field of dress-shirt.
The Main Chance|Meredith Nicholson

British Dictionary definitions for dress shirt

dress shirt

noun

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

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