union suit
Example Sentences
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It sure beats racing through the yard on a cold night, trying to wiggle out of a scratchy union suit just to use the spider-infested outhouse in the pitch-black dark.
From Washington Times
Better yet, women could ditch the corset entirely in favor of one-piece union suits.
From Washington Post
Copp may be the reason that my wife and her siblings and both our children have always had good vocabularies: destitute, vituperative, locality, inauspicious, gauche, megalomaniac, union suit.
From The New Yorker
Milt would slip into his black union suit, cape, mask, and emerge ready to battle upperclass bullies—Thwack!
From Salon
Can you image squeezing into a corset, a union suit or subjecting your hair to one of the early electric permanent wave machines?
From Washington Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
