three-piece
Americanadjective
-
Clothing. consisting of three matching or harmonious pieces, as an ensemble of coat, skirt, and blouse for a woman or a suit of a jacket, vest, and pair of trousers for a man.
-
having three parts.
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of three-piece
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But if we seek self-worth from a three-piece living-room suite from Fendi Casa, we will never stop spending because, as you are painfully aware, self-worth is an inside job.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026
Warsh, who usually appears in public in a three-piece suit, may present the image Trump is looking for.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
He made a series of bizarre court appearances in Scotland - in a wheelchair, wearing a three-piece suit and an oxygen mask, maintaining his claim of mistaken identity.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
WSJ went inside London’s $1.5 billion Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to see the mechanical features—such as a three-piece, underground retractable field—that help maximize revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
She had noticed him earlier, in his three-piece wool suit, staring at her as they waited on the tarmac.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
