piecer

English

Etymology

piece +‎ -er

Noun

piecer (plural piecers)

  1. One who pieces; a patcher.
  2. (historical) A child employed in a spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
  3. (in combination) An item, especially clothing, made up of the specified amount of pieces.
    • 1907, Men’s Wear, page 30:
      Outing ‘two-piecers’ that combine style and comfort in phantom-weight flannels, tropical worsteds and serges show the highest register in favoritism, and the Eiseman Bros.’ make, you know, are the universal favorites.
    • 1926, Collier’s, page 10:
      Girls sit unashamed on the sand with their one-piecers pulled down almost to their waistlines to tempt the coppery tan.
    • 1946, Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine, page 21:
      Jumpers of every type, smart two-piecers.
    • 1971 September, Patricia Doran, “The Right Ski Wear for the Shape You Are In”, in Ski, page 80:
      Many of these one-piecers have inserts at either the shoulder blades or the middle of the back for extra stretch without bulk.
    • 2005, Jack McKinney; Robert Gordon, Jack McKinney’s Tales from Saint Joseph’s Hardwood: The Hawk Will Never Die, Sports Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:
      We were relaxing on our lounge chairs when three very attractive ladies got up from their chairs and converted their two-piece bathing suits into one-piecers by removing their tops.
    • 2009, PJ Piccirillo, Heartwood, Middleton Books, →ISBN, page 5:
      They assembled home-cut poles of bamboo—a two-piecer for Tobias, a three-piecer for his father.
    • 2021, Louise Langford, Nessie, Xlibris, →ISBN:
      Each year, just before winter, daddy bought some long underwear—the one-piecers you see in the movies.
    • 2022 February 15, Nicole Phelps, “Peter Do Fall 2022 Ready-to-Wear Collection”, in Vogue‎, archived from the original on 16 February 2022:
      For evening he showed a trio of monochrome three-piecers that combined trousers, waistcoats elongated to the ankles, and double-face coats worn shrugged off the shoulders to expose bare arms and back.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for piecer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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