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

His next look consisted of a brown jacket with a light-colored dress shirt underneath. —Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025

Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio suited up on Sunday night, wearing a charcoal gray, double-breasted jacket with coordinated trousers and a cream dress shirt. —Julia Teti, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025

Layered over another dress shirt, the look actually feels really chic. —Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2025

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

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