Sentence examples for union suit from inspiring English sources

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union suit

noun

One-piece underwear, usually long, combining drawers and long-sleeved, button-front undershirt in a single garment, with a flap in the seat that can be opened for defecation.

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C. Wear a union suit with a drop seat.

At any rate, I was a long way from grandpa's old one-piece red union suit.

B.V.D.: Bradley, Voorhees & Day may have manufactured the first union suit, "an improvement in combined undershirt and drawers," in 1876.

Ariel's opposite number, the brooding slave Caliban, lurches around the stage looking like a wrestler tricked out in Butoh makeup and a union suit.

In a landmark, posthumously published work, "Children Above 180 IQ (Stanford-Binet): Origin and Development," she presented case studies of these children, vast accumulations of detail pertaining to family histories ("A's great-grandfather... a tailor, devised and patented a union suit, said to have been the first union suit"), head circumferences, grip measurements, and prepubescent doodles.

Sandy put on a red union suit and climbed the ladder into her bunk, and we tried to resume dinner, but soon she was leaning over the edge of the bed, shouting down at us.

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He smiled at them in happy pride and said, "Union Suits They killed him".

Murray Hill gets interesting pieces, including 5-6 covers covers monthly and woolen union suits.

There are bikinis, cutoff shorts and union suits, rainbow-colored wigs, Viking helmets and sombreros.

Downstairs are Amish hats and bonnets, suspenders and shoes, buggy umbrellas and union suits, sewing and quilting supplies.

The most democratic, adaptable and seasonless article of apparel, the T-shirt most likely evolved from Civil War union suits and the long john.

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