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EVENING SHIRT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evening shirt mean?
• EVENING SHIRT (noun)
The noun EVENING SHIRT has 1 sense:
1. a man's white shirt (with a starch front) for evening wear (usually with a tuxedo)
Familiarity information: EVENING SHIRT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man's white shirt (with a starch front) for evening wear (usually with a tuxedo)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
dress shirt; evening shirt
Hypernyms ("evening shirt" is a kind of...):
shirt (a garment worn on the upper half of the body)
Meronyms (parts of "evening shirt"):
plastron (the front of man's dress shirt)
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