a formal or semiformal dress shirt with a starched front
Word origin
[1850–55, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1850–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cloakroom, ethos, headhunting, proletariat, runoff
Examples of 'boiled shirt' in a sentence
boiled shirt
Tony Hardy went up to his room and took off his dinner suit, his boiled shirt and his bow tie.