union suit
Example Sentences
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Hanes capitalized on the union suit market, Golcomb's efforts became the sportswear company Everlast, and Kneibler's briefs inspired Cooper to change its name to Jockey.
From National Geographic • Jan. 9, 2024
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 • Dec. 12, 2022
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 • Dec. 12, 2018
When I got dressed, my first layer was a union suit, the red one-piece underwear with the opening in back.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2014
Grandpa walked over to the washstand and poured some water into the big flowerdy bowl, but I just pulled off down to my union suit and turned back the covers.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
