"dress suit" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dress suits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dress suit (plural dress suits)
  1. A type of formal attire for men, normally consisting of a jacket (traditionally with tails), trousers, waistcoat, shirt and tie (traditionally a bow tie). Categories (topical): Clothing Translations (A type of formal attire for men): Abendanzug [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-dress_suit-en-noun-CuW6F61K Disambiguation of Clothing: 61 39 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 73 27 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 80 20 Disambiguation of 'A type of formal attire for men': 63 37
  2. A type of formal attire for women, typically a jacket over a dress, or a jacket and blouse with trousers or a skirt. Derived forms: dress-suited Translations (A type of formal attire for women): Abendkleid [neuter] (German)
    Sense id: en-dress_suit-en-noun-5kD4WI5b Disambiguation of 'A type of formal attire for women': 36 64

Inflected forms

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