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dress pants

dress pants noun: formal pants (i.e., trousers).

Noun

dress pants pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Formal pants (i.e., trousers).
    • […] this ended in a sad catastrophe happening to his blue dress pants, which could not stand the repeated tests of strength they were put to.1849, H[enry] F. MᶜKillop, Reminiscences of Twelve Months’ Service in New Zealand as a Midshipman, During the Late Disturbances in That Colony, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 38
    • I wore a pair of buckskin moccasins coming up to my knees, and a smock frock of Kentucky jeans, as did the most of us, except Montmery, who had been making visits that day, and came off in a hurry with a pair of black doeskin dress pants, strapped down over patent leather pumps; […]1851 October, “Reedyrill. V.—The Pigeon Roost.”, in Thomas Prentice Kettell, editor, The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, volume XXIX, New York, N.Y.: Kettell & Moore, page 337

Forms of dress pants

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Questions about dress pants

What does dress pants mean?
Dress pants means formal pants (i.e., trousers).
What part of speech is dress pants?
Dress pants is a noun.

Words near dress pants in the dictionary

  1. dress forms
  2. dress guard
  3. dress guards
  4. dress off
  5. dress out
  6. dress pants
  7. dress parade
  8. dress rehearsal
  9. dress rehearsals
  10. dress sense
  11. dress senses

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