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

But you never saw anybody looking as scandalized as Grandma was at these old birds in their union suits and less.

From Literature