three-piece
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- adjective
- /θriː piːs/
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traje de tres piezas
- He arrived at the wedding wearing a stylish three-piece suit that impressed all the guests.
- a three-piece suit
They're the ones that have got like a three piece fully coordinated Nike outfit with the headband on and the sweatband.
- They're the ones that have got like a three piece fully coordinated Nike outfit with the headband on and the sweatband.
- So this little set right it's a three piece set you have I have the little bandeau kind of situation here, little tube top situation up here.
Examples
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To be a big-shot lawyer in a three-piece suit.
Fiction book (1996) -
His sharply tailored silver-gray three-piece suit fit his short, athletic frame like a steel jacket fits a torpedo.
Fiction book (2001) -
So your professor wore a three piece suit and blamed you for your jeans.
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Dressed in a three-piece suit, looking every bit a gentleman!
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Teddy was the only Anglo regular, the only one in the restaurant wearing a three-piece suit.
Fiction book (1995) -
I wore my Sunday best: three-piece suit, white shirt, dark-blue tie.
Fiction book (1991) -
In court, he is almost always in a smart-looking, somber-colored three-piece suit.
Academic text (2011) -
Indy is wearing a brown three-piece suit and circular, wire-rimmed glasses.
Fiction book (1990) -
He's dressed in an immaculate three-piece pinstripe suit.
Fiction book (1998) -
His suit was the giveaway: lush gray, a three-piece job, nipped in at the waist, with sharp, exaggerated lapels.
Fiction book (2000)
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Etymology
The word three-piece comes from the simple parts three ('3') and piece ('part'), so it literally means 'made of three parts'. That's why a three-piece suit has three matching parts: jacket, trousers, and a waistcoat.