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
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 Literature
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
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.
