pants-suit
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See also: pants suit and pantssuit
Noun
pants-suit (plural pants-suits)
- Alternative form of pantsuit
- 1971 March 15, [Jimmy] Hatlo, “Hatlo’s They’ll Do It Every Time”, in The Evening Sentinel, volume XC, number 78, Carlisle, Pa., page 3:
- gee! i like your pants-suit, flotilla! i think i’ll wear mine tomorrow!
- 1990, Employment Law in Financial Institutions, September L3-l4, 1990, New York, New York: ALI-ABA Course of Study Materials, pages 238–239:
- The court found a hostile environment where the sales manager grabbed plaintiff and physically moved her a few feet, berated her for job performance following complaint by plaintiff of ridicule directed against her by co-workers in which she was called "bitch," "whore," and "a bald-headed woman with a wig," and when plaintiff wore a pants-suit instead of a dress, co-workers remarked, "we're going to take your pants off and put a skirt on you" and "we're going to take your clothes off to see if you are real."
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