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dress shirt

noun

  1. 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.
  2. 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.


dress shirt

noun

  1. a man's shirt, usually white, worn as part of formal evening dress, usually having a stiffened or decorative front
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dress shirt1

First recorded in 1890–95
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I even had time to walk back to my car and change from my T-shirt into a clean white dress shirt I had brought with me.

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Some wore the Trump uniform of tan khakis and a white dress shirt.

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And yes, he saw the kid in the blue dress shirt wilding out to the song in a clip from a recent Kamala Harris campaign rally.

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The large balding man in long sleeves roars with every splashed basket, gestures with every scintillating pass, face reddening, arms flailing, celebrating so hard he once ripped a hole in his dress shirt.

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One of the more vulnerable moments the film manages to capture comes when Federer wears the wrong dress shirt to a photo call.

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