1attributive Consisting of three separate and complementary items.

1. 1.1 (of a set of furniture) consisting of a sofa and two armchairs.
   （带一个沙发和两把扶手椅的）三件套沙发
   a three-piece suite

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   • The living room was home to a velour three-piece suite and we used the open fire a lot until we discovered the chimney had been blocked all along.
   • A three-piece suite is apparently the last thing on shoppers' minds at the moment.
   • Ross's father once gave her mother money to go and buy a three-piece suite.
   • There is plenty of space for a family-sized table and three-piece suite.
   • It is a large, traditional room with feature fireplace, heavy furniture and a three-piece suite draped in throws.
   • Simply browse one of the many catalogues over your mochaccino, select the three-piece suite of your choice and they'll process the order for you, with delivery to your door or to the store.
   • I sit on a sofa that is part of an old three-piece suite around a nest of tables.
   • Residents also use the property's garden as a dumping ground for rubbish and council officers had to visit regularly to clear up dumped furniture including a fridge and a three-piece suite.
   • If customers aren't going on holiday this year, they might just manage a three-piece suite instead.
   • I suddenly notice that there are two old children's chairs next to our three-piece suite.
   • I bought a leather three-piece suite, with a footrest in each of the armchairs, which I ordered from Paris.
   • Most household contents policies cover items that can be moved such as household goods, furniture and personal belongings, but they won't pay out for undamaged bits of a set such as part of a three-piece suite.
   • There is space for a three-piece suite and work desk, so the room could be used as a family room or study.
   • June complained to her insurer when dye from her husband's trousers ruined an armchair of her new three-piece suite.
   • Even three-piece suites had been hurled out of the windows.
   • A white marble open fireplace provides an impressive focal point and there is plenty of room for a three-piece suite and coffee table.
   • The ‘best’ front room - complete with piano, three-piece suite, china cabinet and chest of drawers - was off-limits except at Christmas and during visits.
   • It has recently been repainted and is comfortable and relatively spacious, with an apparently brand new three-piece suite.
   • More than 500 householders could be waiting in vain for fridges and three-piece suites to be collected from their homes, unaware that their bookings have been wiped from council records.
   • Morris chairs, which sat in the living area for years, were replaced with a more contemporary upholstered cream-coloured three-piece set to match the walls.
2. 1.2 (of a set of clothes) consisting of trousers or a skirt with a waistcoat and jacket.
   （包括裤子或裙子与马甲和夹克的）三件套衣服
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   • Dad always likes to dress up for any occasion, so he travelled, in the height of summer, in a three-piece tweed suit, large overcoat and brogues.
   • He had on another three-piece summer suit, powder blue this time.
   • Some came dressed in three-piece suits, some in tribal robes.
   • Dressed in a three-piece suit, he is wearing a white shirt and his tie is held in place by a tie-clip.
   • As he told me this, Barrie sat across the table, dressed in dark colours, wearing a black three-piece suit, minus the jacket.
   • But then, many in those days wore three-piece suits and the vest effectively hid the bottom of the tie.
   • She was dressed in three-piece business suit with the skirt ending mid-thigh.
   • In an era without refrigeration, air-conditioning or effective sanitation, and with polite dress being thick, three-piece suits and long skirts, the effects were traumatic.
   • Unassuming in his dark three-piece suit and matching bow tie, his short black hair neatly combed back, Friedman was developing a reputation as a tenacious advocate with a flair for courtroom drama.
   • He favoured three-piece suits and sharp hats yet he made a name making rugged shirts for bushmen.
   • The doors to the car behind mine opened smoothly, a man in a navy blue three-piece suit and deep red tie walked in, and the train was off just as quickly as it had stopped.
   • Some men, however, prefer to wear the traditional, cotton three-piece outfit.
   • Businessmen wear three-piece pin-striped suits with vests and neckties, even in the extremely hot, muggy weather of the island.
   • One wore a three-piece blue business suit and resembled a graying used car salesman.
   • The only tell-tale sign of the politician was the kurta and achkan but it was easy to envision him in a three-piece suit.
   • On Day 1 he looked angelic in his white three-piece suit with a rope of jeweled baubles at the waist and a gold armband.
   • His dark-gray, three-piece, pinstripe suit bore the label of a small shop in Ypres that wouldn't even talk to a prospective client for less than eight thousand francs.
   • He looks a lot better in the three-piece suit than the bright red leather jacket.
   • I hung out the upstairs window all agog as women wearing straw hats, flowery dresses and white gloves, accompanied by men sporting soft hats and three-piece suits with gold watches peeking out the waistcoat pockets arrived at our house.
   • He's wearing a three-piece suit from a major London vendor and a black fedora.

1A set of three separate and complementary items.

1. 1.1 A group consisting of three musicians.
   音乐家三人组
   an entertaining and accomplished three-piece

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   • The Californian three-piece have sold more than 25 million albums.
   • We're taking the songs back now that we're playing the record live as a three-piece.
   • Two gentlemen, who were smartly dressed in suits and ties, would not stop talking loudly and offensively during a captivating musical performance by the three-piece.
   • The three-piece hail from rural Dorset and get their name from the village of Yetminster, five miles from the town of Sherborne where they live.
   • When they first released their debut album in 1997 many didn't rate their chances of success, describing the three-piece as a run-of-the-mill indie band.
   • A victim of their country sounding name, this straight up punk three-piece still gave it their all with a high energy set.
   • The British three-piece mix classically styled riffage with hyperfuzz distortion, and catchy melodies that lurk in your subconscious.
   • By this point they were a three-piece with a low profile.
   • They're a are a young Chicago three-piece that fuse punk and emo in a way that's not shameless, but refreshing.
   • The ease at which this young Texas three-piece pull off such genre-jumping traditions suggest a band steeped in a diverse array of influences.
   • Fresh-faced all male three-piece, singing in German, with a fashion sense cribbed from N-Sync and dance moves from Boy Band 101.
   • I always expect three-pieces to be sloppy on the rhythm section side of things, for some reason.
   • Most impressive about this three-piece is how they each rotated instruments so seamlessly on stage.
   • We continued as a three-piece for another year until he decided he too needed to get away from it all.
   • It's impossible to tell whether this really is peak form for the Bury three-piece, or just part of their growth.
   • They started as a three-piece playing pop-punk cover versions alongside similar-sounding original material.
   • What makes their debut effort all the more outstanding, however, is the lack of guitars - for this Sussex-based three-piece prides itself on the lack of such an instrument.
   • ‘All the best bands were three-pieces,’ he stresses.
   • Two of the three demos included here are culled from 90-minute tapes that the band recorded as a three-piece in 1987.
   • Penning catchy and creepily comic songs about death, dying and all stages in between, this Chicago three-piece's music matches the colour of their hearts - black.