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

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George Kittle wore a dark blue suit jacket and pants over a loose, unbuttoned white dress shirt. Ada Tseng, WWD, 7 Feb. 2025 From wrinkle-free dress shirts to always-smooth pants and easy dresses, the best travel clothes from Amazon start at just $10. Mia Huelsbeck, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025 John Roberts, 58, put on a dress shirt, a tie and a gray sweater. Audra Melton, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 The products featured in the campaign include chinos, Weekday Warrior pants, dress shirts and Jetsetter blazers. Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 16 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for dress shirt

Word History

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dress shirt was in 1849

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“Dress shirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dress%20shirt. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

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