Meanings
- alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of dress pants.
(Men’s Dresspants and Workwear)
1992, International Register of Telegraphic and Trade Addresses, page 8625 more examples
Her entry was a dresspants-coat costume.
1969 May 12, “Dress Designing Is Her Aim”, in Daily Independent Journal, volume 109, number 43, San Rafael, Calif., page 14, column 3When I was young, he owned gray tweed dresspants he called his "ice cream britches," and when he wore them, every other Sunday or so, he bought us ice cream.
1979, Dorothy Marie Wilson, Re-membering: Pieces from My Life, page 78For a week’s stay on the plantation Uncle Antonio took with him: workpants and shirt, dresspants and shirt, suitcoat, hat, socks, sandals, bacon, corn flour, beans, rice, coffee, sugar, salt, bread, tobacco, a spoon and knife, and one candle.
1982, Ikon, page 20And the blazer and dresspants bring to my view the pastures of England, where the farmer shears the wool he must clean before he can bring it to market.
1987, Another Chicago Magazine, page 143This could be described as partially combed hair loose fitting sweaters and a worn or comfortable pair of jeans or dresspants.
1996, James D. Zamagias, Writing the College Essay: A Handbook and Workbook in Composition, Research, and Grammar, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 341
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