leisure suit

noun

: a suit consisting of a shirt jacket and matching trousers for informal wear

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On the Saturday before the primary, Dinkins, wearing a white leisure suit, appeared with Jackson and Spike Lee at a rally in Jamaica, Queens. Jonathan Mahler, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025 Further accessorizing a polyester leisure suit ensemble would likely be a screamingly loud, atrocious acetate shirt. Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2025 Even the music and hairstyles were divisive in the mid-1970s, not to mention the clothes — from the powder-blue leisure suits and skin-tight disco duds to denim, denim and more denim. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025 Mark explained that some fabrics are better for business suits, others for leisure suits. Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for leisure suit

Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of leisure suit was in 1975

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“Leisure suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leisure%20suit. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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