dress shirt
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
noun
Etymology
Origin of dress shirt
First recorded in 1890–95
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He was wearing jeans and hiking boots, the sleeves to his sky blue dress shirt rolled up to just below the elbow.
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Babci sat at her kitchen table, wearing one of my grandfather’s old dress shirts, her hair half up and half down, the picture of a ragamuffin.
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Almost immediately after his arrival, IBM lifers began wearing colorful dress shirts—and watching their backs.
His white dress shirt screams for dear life as it struggles to maintain its integrity around his massive form.
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