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Overall

adjective

Involving only main features.

Including everything.

noun

(usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps).

A loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work. Synonyms: boilers suit, boilersuit.

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... her head back through the window, and the gay tumble of the street gave way to the impersonal, heavy room. Cramming her oil-stained overall into her haversack, she put on her leather coat and ...

— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold

... underground, and a month of feasting in the sun; such is the life of the Cigale. Do not let us again reproach the adult insect with his triumphant delirium. For four years, in the darkness he has worn a dirty parchment overall; for four years he has mined the soil with his talons, and now the mud-stained sapper is suddenly clad in the finest raiment, and provided with wings that rival the bird's; moreover, he is drunken with heat and flooded with light, the supreme terrestrial joy. ...

— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre

... of hours, during which time fresh horses were procured and harnessed to the carriage, while the coachman removed Monseigneur's favours from his hat, and covered his livery with a blue overall. ...

— For The Admiral • W.J. Marx

... In a lion-coloured overall and under a hat tied beneath her chin with a yellow handkerchief, Sally Groves pursued her task. Then came to her Sabina Dinnett and, ceasing not to spread her tow the while, Sally spoke ...

— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts

... him as he looked around, and the question he desired to ask died upon his lips. At length, from one of the dismal cabins emerged a form superior to the rest. Instead of the patched and ragged overall which made the only garment of the men he had hitherto seen, the dress of this person was characterized by all the trappings of Calabrian bravery. Upon his raven hair, the glossy curls of which made a notable contrast to the ...

— Zicci, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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