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Two-piece   /tu-pis/   Listen
Two-piece

noun
1.
A business suit consisting of a matching jacket and skirt or trousers.  Synonyms: lounge suit, two-piece suit.
2.
A woman's very brief bathing suit.  Synonym: bikini.
adjective
1.
(of clothing) made in or consisting of two parts or pieces.



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"Two-piece" Quotes from Famous Books



... tackle-book neat and tidy, you will always have your silks, hooks, lines, flies, &c. in their proper places. When the twine that holds your two-piece Rod together has been thoroughly wet, then when dry, and before using it again, wax well. If any portion of a Rod of three or more pieces is so fast at the joints that you cannot draw, then hold over the flame of a candle or by the fire, and then try, the result is generally satisfactory. ...
— The Teesdale Angler • R Lakeland

... three-story houses were foreshortened with square windows. Two-piece sashes were used, and the number of panes differed considerably. While a like number in both upper and lower sashes was the rule, the Blackwell house, Number 224 Pine Street, and the Powel house, Number 244 South Third Street, are notable instances of foreshortened windows having three-paned upper ...
— The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia • Frank Cousins

... the peanut-man. He sold me two small bags of roasted goobers for eight sous. He wore the brown, oilskin-like, two-piece suit of the Chinese of southern China, and he had no teeth and no hair, and his eyes would not stay open. He had to open them with his fingers, so that most of the time he was blind; but he counted money accurately, and he had a tidy bag of silver and coppers ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... open market, Mawruss," Abe said, "and anyhow I am doing all I can to keep that feller's business. You would think so if you would of been there last night, Mawruss. First a lady in one of them two-piece velvet suits—afterward I see the jacket; a ringer for our style forty-two-twenty, Mawruss—she gets up on the floor, Mawruss, and she hollers bloody murder, Mawruss. I never heard the like since that Italiener girl which we got working for us on White Street catches her finger in the buttonhole ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass

... a thing as Bohemianism, or, rather, a concrete expression of it exists, was Bohemian. A two-piece string orchestra played valiantly to the accompaniment of a hoarse-throated piano; and between courses the diners took up the refrain—and, as it was always between courses with some one, the place was a bedlam of noisy riot. Nevertheless, ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard



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