Evening Shirt (Noun)
Meaning
A man's white shirt (with a starch front) for evening wear (usually with a tuxedo).
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- He wore a crisp evening shirt with his tailored tuxedo for the black-tie gala.
- She was impressed by the elegance of his white starched evening shirt at the formal dinner.
- The evening shirt was perfectly complemented by a bow tie and a pair of cufflinks.
- To complete his outfit for the formal event, he put on an immaculately starched evening shirt.
- He struggled to fasten the wing-tip collar on his new evening shirt as he got ready for the opera.