dress shirt

noun

: a man's shirt especially for wear with evening dress

broadly : a shirt suitable for wear with a necktie

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Sporting a black dress shirt and a black blazer with his new team’s logo, Garoppolo met the media after a one-day delay and began by acknowledging his employer for the past five-plus seasons. —

Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2023 Ben-Gvir, newly installed as the national-security minister, arrived at the scene that night, wearing a white dress shirt and a blazer. —

Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023 Thomas, who often wears a dress shirt and blazer, with his hair in a loose ponytail of shoulder-length dreadlocks, is a professor of natural sciences at the University of Guyana. —

Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022 In video posted to Twitter, a group of people can be seen walking alongside de León, who was wearing a dress shirt and Santa hat, at the indoor event. —

Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022 Affleck looked cool in a sleek black suit and tie over a matching dress shirt and shiny black dress shoes. —

Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Oct. 2022 Alice wearing only a man’s dress shirt outside her front door. —

Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022 Read full article Wearing a jacket and open-collared pink dress shirt, Poitier looks into the camera and just talks: nothing fancy, nothing special. —

Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022 Zendaya at the Vanity Fair Oscars party in March 2022 For the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty, Zendaya underscored her flair for menswear in a black Sportmax suit with a hot pink dress shirt and shiny black tie, plus Bulgari jewelry. —

Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023 See More

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