plain suit
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Sometimes he is dressed in a plain suit, and the next time he will be black with dirt and smelling bad and in the overalls he wears to work.
From Literature
In the grainy Stasi video, Philby, wearing a plain suit and large glasses, addresses the group as "comrades" and boasts he spent "30 years in the enemy camp."
From US News
Bratton’s plain suit of patchwork gray and his flopping black hat made him look less a doctor than a farmer, which was his stated occupation in this assumed identity.
From Slate
Old and young, men and women, kneel before him as he stands in a plain suit.
From BBC
Zarif, short, stout and balding, hews to traditional Iranian collarless shirts, buttoned high at the neck, accompanied by a plain suit and black lace-up shoes.
From Washington Post
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