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dress-suited

dress-suited adjective: wearing a dress suit.

Adjective

dress-suited (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a dress suit.
    • “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...
    • 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 of dress-suited

From dress suit + -ed.

Questions about dress-suited

What does dress-suited mean?
Dress-suited means wearing a dress suit.
What part of speech is dress-suited?
Dress-suited is an adjective.

Words near dress-suited in the dictionary

  1. dress-down days
  2. dress-down Friday
  3. dress-goods
  4. dress-out
  5. dress-shirted
  6. dress-suited
  7. dress-up
  8. dress-up game
  9. dress-up games
  10. dress-up parties
  11. dress-up party

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