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• n  a light puckered fabric (usually striped)

• Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit.
• Not to be confused with the tufted dowager, red-eyed crosspatch, all-night thrasher, ruffled spouse, great stench, lesser stench, or double-breasted seersucker.
• No governing body does insane rituals like the Senate--with its handleless gavel, seersucker-suit day every June and Republican candy desk.

News & Articles

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• Ben McGrath: A gaggle of governors.
  Brendan Byrne, the governor of New Jersey from 1974 to 1982, reclined on a sofa at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, in Newark, dressed in a seersucker suit. “I’m ready for lunch,” he said, thumbing a brass tie clip inscribed with his name. It was . . . (Subscription required.)
  June 17, 2013 - The New Yorker

Quotes

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• Olympia Snowe in Kennebec Journal
  Trent, be serious,Snowe told him. "I'm from Maine, I don't wear seersucker. Not over my dead body."
• Sam Moore in Billboard
  People won't believe I can sing those songs, but that's what I was doing,says Moore with a hearty laugh. "I'd be sitting on a stool in my seersucker suit with a shirt and tie, topped off by a stingy-brimmed hat. You couldn't tell me I...