dress shirt

noun

: a man's shirt especially for wear with evening dress

broadly : a shirt suitable for wear with a necktie

Examples of dress shirt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But Reeves was also at the height of his astonishing beauty, stalking around a moody L.A. in a rumpled dress shirt and loosened black tie as though perpetually winding down from some more professional day job that doesn’t exist. —Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025

It may be considered the quintessential dress shirt today, but the button-down collar shirt actually traces its history to the sport of polo. —Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 25 Feb. 2025

Underneath the blazer, Erivo wore a crisp white dress shirt with a black tie. —Catherine Santino, People.com, 23 Feb. 2025

Wearing a bulletproof vest over a sweater and dress shirt, Mangione was hauled into Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro’s courtroom in handcuffs and leg shackles at around 2:15 p.m., where scores of reporters and more than a dozen supporters, mostly young women, packed the gallery. —Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dress shirt

• alert
• assert
• avert
• dessert
• divert
• evert
• exert
• inert
• insert
• invert
• nightshirt
• overt