zoot suiter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of zoot suiter
Example Sentences
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Valdez first used the character of a zoot suiter to represent La Luna, the Moon, in his allegorical play “Bernabé.”
From Los Angeles Times
Chavez, a music-loving zoot suiter in his youth who never passed an opportunity to scour a record store, understood the power of songs and art when it came to amplifying his message of fighting for better working and living conditions for the campesinos in California’s fertile fields.
From Los Angeles Times
By essentially living in this custom-made beauty, Bichir stays constantly connected to El Pachuco, the impeccably dressed host, narrator and mythic zoot suiter he portrays in Luis Valdez’s play about Mexican American devotees of zoot suit style who were arrested and tried en masse after a 1942 Los Angeles killing.
From Los Angeles Times
And this Brother Tod Clifton, the youth leader, looked somehow like a hipster, a zoot suiter, a sharpie—except his head of Persian lamb's wool had never known a straightener.
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