: consisting of or made in three pieces
a three-piece suit

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In a look channeling the symbolic figure Uncle Sam, Jackson wore a custom Bode outfit consisting of a three-piece suit and an overcoat cut from Italian wool suiting. Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 10 Feb. 2025 His mission is to explore what tailoring can mean in the modern wardrobe, a mission that showed in the three-piece pinstripe suits, traditional waistcoats, topcoats with contrast collars and even a couple of long pleated skirts. Layla Ilchi, WWD, 7 Feb. 2025 No one could be so secure in a tan three-piece seersucker suit that didn’t so much hang from his broad shoulders as hover around them in expectation. Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025 In 24 hours, a man whose local reputation was the equivalent of a nifty $100,000 three-piece suit not only shredded it into a thousand little pieces but managed to make Jerry Jones look like the best general manager who ever lived. Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for three-piece 

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of three-piece was in 1904

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“Three-piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/three-piece. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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