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button-down shirt

NOUN
dress shirt
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Wearing a grey suit and button-down shirt most days, Mr Mangione frequently took notes on a legal pad, and occasionally smiled and laughed with his lawyers.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Restaurants hummed with more than half of their tables full, many taken up by people in the San Francisco work uniform: a button-down shirt and a puffer vest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

Jimmy Carter wore a button-down shirt in Khartoum.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024

Finally, a man in a turquoise button-down shirt rose with the focused intensity of a military officer preparing to issue an order of great significance.

From Slate • May 6, 2024

She’s wearing a white button-down shirt and a pair of blue jeans, and her long hair is down around her shoulders.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy




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