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Definition of Dress suit
1. Noun. Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men.
Generic synonyms: Evening Clothes, Evening Dress, Eveningwear, Formalwear
Terms within: Morning Coat, Swallow-tailed Coat, Swallowtail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dress Suit
Literary usage of Dress suit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"... home via Mazatlan and San Francisco — Alamos — Witness marriage between a
Mexican girl and a German — New York — A dress-suit my chief asset — Return to ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"... the trunks opened; in them was clothing marked CAP, books, samples of gents'
clothing, shirts and a dress suit and a number of other things. May 2-1. ..."
3. World's Columbian Exposition, 1893: Official Catalogue by Moses Purnell Handy (1893)
"dress suit, promenade suit and overcoat cape. 652 21. Hippach & Benson, Chicago.
... dress suit and business suit. 652 30. Lundahl & Co., Chicago. ..."
4. The Barrister: Being Anecdotes of the Late Tom Nolan of the New York Bar by Charles Frederick Stansbury (1902)
"The dress suit Famine. SHORTLY after it was alleged that an edict had gone forth
from Mr. Richard Croker to ..."
5. Ordered to China: Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin Written from China While by Wilbur J Chamberlin (1903)
"Funny custom, isn't it, when you must wear a dress suit even if you have to wear
your overcoat to dinner to keep warm ? I nearly froze to death, myself. ..."
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