WordNet
n. a man's white shirt (with a starch front) for evening wear (usually with a tuxedo) [syn: dress shirt]
Usage examples of "evening shirt".
He considered whether to wear his turquoise evening shirt, which brought out the blue-green in his eyes, or a white one with a turquoise bow-tie, then decided on the former.
One day I saw him in his attic: clad in black trousers and a white evening shirt, he lay on his back, rolling an empty gin bottle about with his unshod feet and playing the trumpet just wonderfully.
He undid his black silk tie and loosened the top button of his evening shirt.
Atlas now wore a brown silk dinner jacket, with his blue television evening shirt, and black trousers.
The knife's plain haft, against his ribs, through a starched evening shirt.
I imagined the heavy slugs slamming into him, lifting him off his feet, his dark blood staining the lace-front evening shirt.
Werner was wearing a cream-coloured, slubbed-silk jacket, black pants and frilly evening shirt with a big black bow tie.
He looked carefully round the room to see if anything had been forgotten and slipped his singlebreasted dinner-jacket coat over his heavy silk evening shirt.
He looked carefully round the room to see if anything had been forgotten and slipped his single-breasted dinner-jacket coat over his heavy silk evening shirt.