dress shirt

1. 1.

   a man's white shirt (with a starch front) for evening wear (usually with a tuxedo)

   Synonymsevening shirt

   Broadershirt

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Questions about dress shirt

What does dress shirt mean?

dress shirt means "a man's white shirt (with a starch front) for evening wear (usually with a tuxedo)".

What is another word for dress shirt?

Close synonyms include evening shirt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dress shirt a common word?

dress shirt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.