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dress-shirted

dress-shirted adjective: wearing a dress shirt.

Adjective

dress-shirted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a dress shirt.
    • 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 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 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.1925 October 15, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Sam the Sudden”, in Evening Despatch, number 11,014, Birmingham, published 28 September 1926, page 2

Origin of dress-shirted

From dress shirt + -ed.

Questions about dress-shirted

What does dress-shirted mean?
Dress-shirted means wearing a dress shirt.
What part of speech is dress-shirted?
Dress-shirted is an adjective.

Words near dress-shirted in the dictionary

  1. dress-down day
  2. dress-down days
  3. dress-down Friday
  4. dress-goods
  5. dress-out
  6. dress-shirted
  7. dress-suited
  8. dress-up
  9. dress-up game
  10. dress-up games
  11. dress-up parties

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