dress-suited en · ADJ
Etymology
From dress suit + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Wearing a dress suit.
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:On the contrary: its approach was so sober as to recall the days of dress-suited newsreaders.
2000 July 21, James Walton, “Fibs and whoppers galore”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 45,131, page 46:“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 The Boston Daily Globe, volume XXV, number 29, Boston, Mass.: