What is "three-piece"

Usage examples of "three-piece".

Three-piece suiters ate next to blue-collar workers, their chatter and clinking dinnerware creating a din.

I am in a three-piece butter-soft black leather suit, with purple turtleneck and the shiniest boots in Christendom.

The hustling crowds flowed to and fro, from casino to motel or liquor store, a frenetic swirl of humanity composed of frontier types in buckskins, Las Vegas residents and tourists in shirts and slacks or shorts, and dapper sorts in three-piece suits.

I saw a pool-table, a polythene-wrapped three-piece suite, various devotional ornaments and gewgaws with their special pale glow.

Goth, but with Miki, anything seemed to go, from skateboarders and headbangers to lawyers in three-piece suits.

Bill looked up to twenty-six-year-old Sam, who wore a three-piece suit onstage and railed against the get-rich-quick televangelists who built amusement parks in the name of the Lord.

I belong a hundred years into the future to some unknown man who wears three-piece suits instead of riding britches and boots, and drives a car home each night, not a huge four-legged animal.

It is a three-piece affair, everything quilted, long jacket, waistcoat, and trousers, which have Feet at the ends of them, all in striped silk, a double stripe of some acidick Rose upon Celadon for the Trousers and Waistcoat, and for the Jacket, whose hem touches the floor when, as now, he is seated, a single stripe of teal-blue upon the same color, which is also that of the Revers.

He wore a pale raincoat over a dark three-piece suit, black wingtip shoes with heels that tapped sharply as he walked.

With his twinkling gray eyes and rosy cheeks, his smartly bar­bered white beard and hair, and his well-cut maroon three-piece suit with a sprig of holly in the buttonhole, Atoning Unifex might have served as the prototype for Santa Claus as boulevardier.

He wore a navy three-piece suit, bankerly with its chalk stripes and flashy with its paisley tie.

To go with his tall black wig and his thin black moustache he was wearing an outfit that was, fundamentally, black: the de rigueur three-piece suit of waistcoat, coat, and breeches, all in the same fabric—probably a very fine wool.

For two years Celia threw in her lot with the decadent London young, gave parties for shits in satin plus-fours and bitches in neon camisoles, ate at Tastes and Casa Ari beside pricks with powder-puffed hair and tarts in three-piece pinstripe suits, went to Serena's and Poor on the arms of bastards in high-heeled gambados and slags in tapestry body stockings.

Behind him, a group of Japanese businessmen, in all respects identical to Mr Mitsubishi, rustled inside their dark three-piece suits like chrysaline insects, black bowlers on their laps, chattering animatedly about the two Jacks, Ruby and Kennedy.

At two-thirty in the morning, he was freshly shaved and cologned and wore a three-piece suit.