leisure suit
nounDefinition of leisure suit
: a suit consisting of a shirt jacket and matching trousers for informal wear
Examples of leisure suit in a Sentence
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Alas, Linda made baby tees until the late ’90s, while shrinking other fashion items, including the 1970s leisure suit, cardigans, and even men’s dress shirts. — Sara Radin, Teen Vogue, "Meet the Designer Who Made the Baby T-Shirt Popular in the 1990s, and Brought It Back All Over Again," 11 July 2019 Don’t skip out on the movie’s memorable disco scenes, leisure suits and city grime. — Jennifer Vineyard, New York Times, "The Best TV Shows and Movies New to Netflix, Amazon and More in June," 1 June 2018 Twenty-one years after John Travolta strutted across the silver screen in a white leisure suit, Hollywood decided once again that disco didn’t suck. — Robbie Daw, Billboard, "Ultra NatĂ©, Amber and Jocelyn Enriquez on Their 1998 Stars on 54 Collaboration 'If You Could Read My Mind'," 31 May 2018 Now if the bullpen cart makes a comeback, can the leisure suit be far behind? — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "The bullpen cart returns for ex-Brewer Mike Fetters' Arizona relief corps," 6 Mar. 2018 Those off-putting mustard yellows, algae greens and Cheeto oranges that bubbled up long ago, making leisure suits and turtlenecks uneasy on the eyes, are as dead as disco; what endures are the decade’s autumnal tones, rich not kitsch. — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, "The Ugliest Era of Menswear Is Back: Why You’ll Want to Relive It," 30 Aug. 2017 Athleisure started to give way to leisure suits, just good ones this time around. — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, "Ryan Gosling Just Proved That a Brown Suit Can Look Genuinely Cool," 21 Sep. 2017 Those off-putting mustard yellows, algae greens and Cheeto oranges that bubbled up long ago, making leisure suits and turtlenecks uneasy on the eyes, are as dead as disco — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, "The Ugliest Era of Menswear Is Back: Why You’ll Want to Relive It," 30 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'leisure suit.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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