Meaning

Alternative form of dress pants..

Example Sentences

Her entry was a dresspants-coat costume.

When I was young, he owned gray tweed dresspants he called his "ice cream britches," and when he wore them, every other Sunday or so, he bought us ice cream.

For a week’s stay on the plantation Uncle Antonio took with him: workpants and shirt, dresspants and shirt, suitcoat, hat, socks, sandals, bacon, corn flour, beans, rice, coffee, sugar, salt, bread, tobacco, a spoon and knife, and one candle.

And the blazer and dresspants bring to my view the pastures of England, where the farmer shears the wool he must clean before he can bring it to market.

(Men’s Dresspants and Workwear)

This could be described as partially combed hair loose fitting sweaters and a worn or comfortable pair of jeans or dresspants.

“Pete Impala said something about that last Saturday at Stone’s,” I said, replaying Impala, in gray dresspants instead of jeans, squinting at me through his Lucky Strike haze, the first time he ever went out of his way to sit next to Brod and me at Stone’s: […]

Once or twice he reached down and checked that he was wearing pants, not pajamas but the brown polyester trousers they wanted him to wear at Tabor Home because you can wash polyester in the machine and woolen dresspants stink.

When Should You Use Dress pants?

Use dress pants when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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