dress-shirted

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dress shirt +‎ -ed.

Adjective[edit]

dress-shirted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a dress shirt.
    • 1925 September 20, “Premiere of “The Green Hat” As Seen by Forney Wyly”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVIII, number 99, Atlanta, Ga., page three:
      And, sure enough, against an almost entirely low-necked, hatless, dress-shirted audience, I saw three ladies proudly wearing green hats “pour le sport,” and seemingly with no attempt to be funny.
    • 1925 October 15, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Sam the Sudden”, in Evening Despatch, number 11,014, Birmingham, published 28 September 1926, page 2:
      And such was the never-failing efficiency of this masterly girl that it whizzed in through the open window, from which, after a brief interval, there appeared, leaning out, the dress-shirted and white-tied upper portion of Mr. Willoughby Braddock.
    • 2006 September 24, Rick Nichols, “Stepping up at Molcajete”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 178th year, number 116, page M5:
      The low-key waitstaff is dress-shirted in French blue.