dress shirt

noun

: a shirt especially for wear with evening attire

broadly : a shirt with buttons, cuffs, and a collar that is suitable for wear with a necktie

Examples of dress shirt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The members of the second clan, meanwhile, can’t be relied on to dance or to wear clothes well—just look at the images of Wilson on the beach at Truro, holding forth in a dress shirt. — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

At a conference last Friday announcing the city had come to an agreement with the county and the team, Clendenin unbuttoned his dress shirt to reveal a Rays jersey customized with his name. — Nicolas Villamil, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026

Urban— who finalized his divorce from Kidman in January— coordinated with his former wife in a plunging black pinstripe dress shirt, a matching blazer jacket, and matching trousers. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 26 Aug. 2026

Faris wore a black sequin halterneck dress with cutouts on the sides, while Jack looked sharp in a classic black suit with a crisp white dress shirt. — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1810, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dress shirt

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