dress-suited

adjective

Wearing a dress suit.

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Meanings

adjectivedress-suited (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWearing a dress suit.

    On the contrary: its approach was so sober as to recall the days of dress-suited newsreaders.

    2000 July 21, James Walton, “Fibs and whoppers galore”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 45,131, page 46
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    “M’liss” and a plain dress-suited individual (modern waiter?) proved very good skaters;[…]

    1884 January 29, “Curious Costumes: Worn at the Skating Carnival Last Evening. The Institute Rink Bedecked With Handsome and Fantastic Disguises. A Great Crowd Present, and Thoroughly Pleased.”, in The Boston Daily Globe, volume XXV, number 29, Boston, Mass.

    Then three gum-chewing, strawhatted, dress-suited gangsters emerge from an oversize limousine and engage Albers in a full-scale gun battle.

    1959, “The European Western—By George N. Fenin and William K. Everson”, in Film Culture, number 20, page 66

Origin

From dress suit + -ed.

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