dress shirt
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.
dress shirts
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pluralof dress shirt.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Two of our esteemed gubernatorial candidates, the cowboy and the dilettante, apparently could not find ties for the first debate Wednesday night, showing up with dress shirts casually unbuttoned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
“We’d literally scramble with a shower, put on our business casual with our dress shirts on, belt, tie, dress shoes,” Mendoza said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Put him in more jeans and rolled-up dress shirts?
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
Dries Van Noten unveiled a layered collection for spring, mixing patterns and sparkles into a line-up of tailored coats and loosely worn dress shirts at Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
Our sleep shirts crusted over during the night, drying and hardening with the hot air and dust like they had been lightly starched, the way Grandma did the collars of my dad’s dress shirts.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
