boiled shirt

boiled shirt
noun
: a man's dress shirt with a starched front

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a formal or semiformal dress shirt with a starched front.
[1850-55, Amer.]

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boiled shirt noun
A dress shirt
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Main Entry:boil
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boiled shirt
A white shirt (with starched front)
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Main Entry:shirt

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boiled shirt,
U.S. a white dress shirt with a starched bosom.

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n. dated a dress shirt with a starched front

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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