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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pantsuit
noun
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▪ A glorious bright turquoise liquid jersey pantsuit is the ultimate garb for travel by space shuttle.
▪ A polyester pantsuit hung on her bones, and on her feet some one had stuck a pair of too-large cowboy boots.
▪ And she looked civilized enough, in her freshly pressed brown pantsuit -- she looked certifiably corporate.
▪ Mom wore large bifocals with Sophia Loren frames and a pastel polyester pantsuit that stretched over her abdomen.
▪ She dressed modestly in a blue pantsuit covered by a tan all-weather coat.
▪ She looks elegant in her taupe pantsuit, her long nails manicured, her hair freshly washed, her makeup perfect.
▪ She turns from them to put on the matching jacket to her taupe pantsuit.
▪ There is a drawing of the mail-order pantsuit she purchased for job interviews when her children were grown.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pantsuit

1966, contraction of pants suit (1964), from pants + suit (n.).

Wiktionary
pantsuit

alt. (context US English) A women's suit consisting of coordinated pants (trousers) and jacket n. (context US English) A women's suit consisting of coordinated pants (trousers) and jacket

Wikipedia
Pantsuit

A pantsuit or pant suit, also known as a trouser suit outside the United States, is a woman's suit of clothing consisting of trousers and a matching or coordinating coat or jacket.

Formerly, the prevailing fashion for women included some form of coat, but paired with a skirt or dress—hence the name pantsuit.

Usage examples of "pantsuit".

Tourists, businesspeople, girls in trendy pantsuits, messengers on huge motorbikes.

Women in modest skirts or slightly unflattering pantsuits, like Jesse Simons, the Deconstructionist, who argued that doping the water supply was embracing the nomadic sign system of Albertine, which of course represented not some empirical astrophysical event, but, rather, a symbolic reaction to the crisis of instability caused by American Imperialism.

She wore a shiny rayon pantsuit and made her face up with orangy lipstick and iridescent eye shadow.

It was that of the minor officer, he who had sat near her on the evening of the entertainment, he who had conversed with the woman in the pantsuit, the same evening the Alaria had come under attack.

She wore a sleek, black pantsuit and a high-collared hooded jacket against the chill of the mountain mists and carried an attache case, where the manifest likely was.

She sailed into the supermarket decked out in an amazing canary-yellow pantsuit.

For the record, he wasn't bad-looking if you like lounge lizards only one generation removed from pastel polyester pantsuits, family outings to discount stores, and forced joviality around the gas grill in a New Jersey backyard.

Her glorious hair was in a long braid today and she was wearing a green silk pantsuit several shades darker than her eyes under her long black leather coat.

A man and a woman in pale blue pantsuits with high pointed collars sat on two low mushroom-colored mushrooms with a broad, slightly taller taupe mushroom before them, shielding their laps.

There were people in tennis togs and riding breeches and hiking boots, and a group of little old ladies in polyester pantsuits carrying shawls and heavy sweaters, and old men in loud sports jackets hung about with camera bags and binoculars.

I had gone next to Vegas and splurged on ultra-chic, very feminine, new clothes - not the tailored pantsuits most female executives wore.

He felt like a voyeur as he gathered her pink pantsuits, pink robes, pink underwear, and pink nightgowns from closets and dresser drawers.

Then she saw rows of booths covered with crepe paper, and more ladies bustling around in pantsuits and varnished hairdos.

Emily opens the door in the dark gray pantsuit she wore to the Israel Philharmonic concert, where as usual Nakhama fell asleep.

A young blond woman in a black velvet pantsuit and ten-gallon hat carried a guitar to the stage.