Meanings
- not comparableWearing a dress shirt.
The low-key waitstaff is dress-shirted in French blue.
2006 September 24, Rick Nichols, “Stepping up at Molcajete”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 178th year, number 116, page M52 more examples
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 threeAnd 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
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