See dresspants on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1969 May 12, “Dress Designing Is Her Aim”, in Daily Independent Journal, volume 109, number 43, San Rafael, Calif., page 14, column 3",
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"ref": "1979, Dorothy Marie Wilson, Re-membering: Pieces from My Life, page 78",
"text": "When I was young, he owned gray tweed dresspants he called his \"ice cream britches,\" and when he wore them, every other Sunday or so, he bought us ice cream.",
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"ref": "1982, Ikon, page 20",
"text": "For a week’s stay on the plantation Uncle Antonio took with him: workpants and shirt, dresspants and shirt, suitcoat, hat, socks, sandals, bacon, corn flour, beans, rice, coffee, sugar, salt, bread, tobacco, a spoon and knife, and one candle.",
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"ref": "1987, Another Chicago Magazine, page 143",
"text": "And the blazer and dresspants bring to my view the pastures of England, where the farmer shears the wool he must clean before he can bring it to market.",
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"ref": "1992, International Register of Telegraphic and Trade Addresses, page 862",
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"ref": "1996, James D. Zamagias, Writing the College Essay: A Handbook and Workbook in Composition, Research, and Grammar, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, page 341",
"text": "This could be described as partially combed hair loose fitting sweaters and a worn or comfortable pair of jeans or dresspants.",
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"ref": "2000, Vernon Frazer, Relic’s Reunions, Beneath the Underground Books, page 107",
"text": "“Pete Impala said something about that last Saturday at Stone’s,” I said, replaying Impala, in gray dresspants instead of jeans, squinting at me through his Lucky Strike haze, the first time he ever went out of his way to sit next to Brod and me at Stone’s: […]",
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"ref": "2004, Anne Konrad, And in Their Silent Beauty Speak: A Mennonite Family in Russia and Canada, 1790-1990, page 5, column 1",
"text": "Once or twice he reached down and checked that he was wearing pants, not pajamas but the brown polyester trousers they wanted him to wear at Tabor Home because you can wash polyester in the machine and woolen dresspants stink.",
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"ref": "2008 March 28, Gabriel Bell, “The Best Of NY Fashion Week: Video, Pics, Reviews”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-02-01",
"text": "Top looks: Wool dresspants with elasticized bottoms, a fur-trimmed cardigan.",
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"ref": "2017, Ace Finlay, Poetry of Death & Black Horror Stories + Monster Labyrinth",
"text": "“Hey Cheryl, hold on a second I just got back and need a second to spiffy up…” I replied as I stripped off my suit and dresspants and hastily began to pull back on the pair of jeans that I had been wearing in the morning.",
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