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

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

Jason, 37, wore a pinstriped suit paired with a newsboy cap and a white dress shirt. —Catherine Santino, People.com, 22 July 2025

Smith’s look featured a double-breasted blazer with peak lapels, matching wide-leg trousers, and a tonal pink dress shirt with tie. —Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 25 June 2025

That’s right: Jane-Ann’s torso boasts six protrusions in a vertical line just to the left of center, where the buttons of a women’s dress shirt are traditionally placed. —Julie Klausner, New Yorker, 15 May 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