dress shirt
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2.7
- noun
- /drɛs ʃɜrt/
:
camisa de vestir
- For the wedding, I decided to buy a new dress shirt to match my tuxedo.
- a white dress shirt
- a blue dress shirt
Cool Fandy cool Fandy men's dress shirt, long stretch.
- Cool Fandy cool Fandy men's dress shirt, long stretch.
Examples
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By the time he turned around, his white dress shirt was splotched raw brown.
Academic text (1999) -
My father wore gray pants, a white dress shirt, and a tie.
Fiction book (1997) -
We all know that finding a dress shirt that fits is hard.
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I only brought two dress shirts.
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Ben is wearing black jeans, red socks, and a white dress shirt.
Fiction book (1995) -
Starts to pull more items from her duffel bag: black shoes, a dress shirt, a tie.
Fiction book (2000) -
His neck is pinched into a crisp dress shirt and tie.
Fiction book (1993) -
First, he laid out his clothes: the dark suit, the white dress shirt, and the two-tone oxfords.
Fiction book (2000) -
The shadow is a man with dove-white hair, wearing a dress shirt and seersucker jacket.
Fiction book (1998) -
His ancient dress shirt had yellowed and frayed at the collar.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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1.0
A piece of clothing for the upper body with sleeves and a collar
A formal white shirt for men with a stiff front worn with a tuxedo
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a formal shirt' is directly and compositionally derived from 'dress' (formal) + 'shirt' (upper-body garment); the adjective modifies the noun in a standard English noun phrase. This is a common, cross-linguistic compounding pattern (e.g., Spanish 'camisa de vestir'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Dress shirt The name dress shirt comes from dress, meaning to 'dress up', and shirt, a cloth top. People made these shirts neat and wore them with a tie for special events, so a dress shirt means a shirt for 'formal' occasions.