Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. comprising two pieces n. A garment consisting of two separate parts; especially such a swimsuit
WordNet
adj. (of clothing) made in or consisting of two parts or pieces; "a two-piece swimsuit" [ant: three-piece, one-piece]
n. a business suit consisting of a matching jacket and skirt or trousers [syn: two-piece suit, lounge suit]
a woman's abbreviated two-piece bathing suit [syn: bikini]
Wikipedia
Two-piece or Two piece or Two pieces may refer to:
- Bikini, a two-piece swimsuit
- Double act, a comedy duo
- Two-piece band, a musical ensemble with two members, a duo
- Two-piece gel encapsulation, a method of preparing a Capsule (pharmacy) containing a dose of medicine, invented in 1847
- Two piece implant, a form of Abutment (dentistry), a connecting element
- Two-piece lapping, a version of the machining process Lapping
- Two-piece sobralia ( Sobralia dichotoma), an orchid found in South America
- Two-piece suit, a set of garments made from the same cloth; see Suit (clothing)
- Two-piece tmRNAs, a type of Transfer-messenger RNA
- "Two Pieces", a song on the record Demi (album) of 2013 by Demi Lovato (born 1992)
- Two Pieces for Piano (1921), a composition by John Ireland (18791962)
- Two Pieces for Piano (1925), a composition by John Ireland (18791962)
- Two Pieces for Piano (1929-30), a composition by John Ireland (18791962)
- Two Pieces for Wind Quintet (Ropartz), a composition of 1924 by Guy Ropartz (18641955)
- Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65, a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore (18981986)
- Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9, a bronze sculpture of 1967 by Henry Moore
- Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points, a bronze sculpture of 196970 by Henry Moore
Usage examples of "two-piece".
The Twister was covered in a one piece sheath of polished anodised aluminum, the Doctor in a two-piece grey gabardine.
A kilt, of course, a Hebridean girl without a kilt was unthinkable, a Shetland two-piece and brown brogues: and that she would be a raven-haired beauty with wild, green, fey eyes went without saying.
She was weighing the advantages of a soft wool two-piece against a coat-dress when Cor came in and announced Mevrouw Pette, and Annis got to her feet.
Wednesday came to break the monotony of the days, and since it was a lovely summer morning Beatrice got into a rather nice silky two-piece in a pale pearly pink, brushed her hair into a shining chignon, thrust her feet into high-heeled sandals and got into the elderly Daimler beside her aunt.
She made a beeline for Harrods and bought a knitted dress in a pleasing shade of amber and a silk jersey two-piece in several shades of old rose.
In a previous age, I reflected, she might have been a servant in a big house or a stenographer riding the tram to work in a cheap two-piece suit and cloche hat.
The advent of the two-piece suit, with its inevitable concomitant of a few exposed navels, was an unlooked-for source of delicious indignation to her.
Her capri pants, her white cotton short-shorts, her two-piece polka dot swimsuit, her fuzzy sweaters.
She helped Olga find a gray two-piece uniform in the right size from a rack that would have stretched from wingtip to wingtip on a Skywalker jet, then fed her past a series of bored functionaries until Olga had secured both her badge and a locker in one of the changing rooms.
In the backyard of our house on Seminole, I jumped through the sprinkler in my bathing suit, a two-piece number, while Chapter Eleven picked dandelions to make dandelion wine.
A two-piece band was playing and girls sat around in twos and threes.
She had changed into a two-piece leisure suit, with a pale-cream blouse to show off her figure and her smooth arms and shoulders.
He was wearing boots and a two-piece work-suit of neutral gray, not livery.
Most doll parts available to the Native Americans were cast in pipe clay from a two-piece mold.
Her swimsuit, a blackwool two-piece affair, reminded him of days gone by, cars with rumble seats, football games, Glenn Miller's orchestra.