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

The final look included Rachel Comey heeled boots, the secondhand Emporio Armani suit, the white dress shirt with French cuffs, silk cufflinks, a silver tie pin, secondhand silver rings, and her grandmother's hand-me-down Peugeot watch. —Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025

Jogia opted for a taupe pinstriped suit paired with a peach silky dress shirt and a gold earring. —Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025

Day 3 – Darks Today is the day your dark-colored jeans, leggings, dress shirts, socks, and underwear get their moment in the suds. —Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025

To do so, analysts compared the average prices of a few staple clothing items in a household — like a men’s dress shirt, women’s slacks and boys’ jeans — to each city’s median household income. —Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 7 Aug. 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