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gray flannel

noun as in suit

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Example Sentences

No author could be included twice and books no longer available through Simon & Schuster were left off, such as a major release from the publisher in the 1950s: Sloan Wilson’s novel about a World War II veteran’s struggles back home, “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.”

Once upon a time it was defined as the party of Main Street and the country club: white middle-class and upper-middle-class guys in gray flannel suits.

From Salon

Then, I buttoned up my gray flannel nightie and settled in for the long night to come.

And the time on one of my first flights when a tomato sailed off my tongs as I tossed a salad and landed in the gray flannel lap of a businessman seated in 2D.

From Salon

I peeked out my one window to be greeted by a sky like a gray flannel crazy quilt.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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