Definition of Three-piece

1. Adjective. (of clothing) made in or consisting of three parts or pieces. "The standard three-piece business suit; jacket and trousers and vest"

Antonyms: One-piece, Two-piece

Lexicographical Neighbors of Three-piece

three-legged race
three-line whip
three-lobed
three-martini lunch
three-martini lunches
three-membered
three-mile limit
three-milk cake
three-minute warning
three-nerved
three-on-the-tree
three-parted
three-party
three-peat
three-piece (current term)
three-piece suit
three-pile
three-ply
three-point landing
three-point line
three-point lines
three-point shot
three-point switch
three-point turn
three-pointed
three-pronged
three-quarter
three-quarter back
three-quarter backs

Literary usage of Three-piece

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"Assam. corolla consist each of three piece*, which v either distinct or more or less united. Г. stamens vary in number, from 3 t» я '. ..."

2. Sheet Metal Drafting, Prepared in the Extension Division of the University by Ellsworth M. Longfield (1921)
"The three-piece Rectangular Elbow.—This problem deals with a three-piece, 90° elbow, Fig. 131, having a throat radius of 4| in. Looking at the elevation of ..."

3. Amateur Rodmaking by Perry D. Frazer (1914)
"CHAPTER IX three-piece RODS r • ^HE most common type known is the I three-piece rod, the separate parts of which are of equal length. ..."

4. Amateur Rodmaking by Perry D. Frazer (1914)
"CHAPTER IX three-piece RODS THE most common type known is the three-piece rod, the separate parts of which are of equal length. The angler who must go far ..."

5. On the Zoological Position of Texas by Edward Drinker Cope (1880)
"three-piece bait and four-piece fly combination black-bass rod. TJ. ... three-piece brass-mounted ash and lancewood mountain trout rod; weight 8 ounces. ..."

6. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1917)
"6 he gives us two pictures showing approximately 60000-volt insulators, the old one being a four-piece and the new one a three-piece. The three-piece unit, ..."

7. Airplane Engine Encyclopedia: An Alphabetically Arranged Compilation of All by Glenn Dale Angle (1921)
"... pistons were each fitted with one three-piece ring. A double centrifugal pump was arranged to circulate water to each bank of cylinders independently. ..."

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