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overalls

/adverb oh-ver-awl; adjective, noun oh-ver-awl/US // adverb ˈoʊ vərˈɔl; adjective, noun ˈoʊ vərˌɔl //

工作服,工装裤,工装,工衣

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : from one extreme limit of a thing to the other: the overall length of the bridge.
    • : covering or including everything: an overall impression; to view something overall.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : overalls, loose, sturdy trousers, usually with a bib or biblike piece to which shoulder straps are attached, originally worn over other trousers to protect them, as by factory workers or farmers.long waterproof leggings.
    • : British. a smock or loose-fitting housedress.

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Examples

  • The collection includes kimono capes and hand woven jump overalls.

  • Improbably, the only disguise used by this tall, burly imposing man was to wear worker's overalls.

  • He was still in company overalls, his face and hands stained with crude.

  • The cowboys were dressed in bib overalls, which just about killed my father.

  • My Grandfather frequently wore overalls as a farmer in rural Nebraska.

  • She wore overalls and high boots, and the night braid of her hair was twisted several times round her throat.

  • When he and Bill finally shed their borrowed overalls and caps, the garage lights were on, and the lot behind the shop was dusky.

  • He pictured Maizie as wearing overalls, a man's shirt with the tail out, a big slouch hat, and buckskin gloves.

  • He had taken care to remove from the box of clothing his sheepskin, his loose coat with a hood, and his waterproof overalls.

  • Silk socks and overalls were probably a part of some whim; they certainly added picturesqueness to the scene.