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unionall

unionall noun: a one-piece garment that is used as work clothes or as a uniform.

unionall: a one-piece garment that is used as work clothes or as a uniform
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Noun

unionall (plural unionalls)

  1. (plural-normally) A one-piece garment that is used as work clothes or as a uniform.
    • Frowning thought held him a moment; then he clawed beneath his unionall.1920, Munsey's Magazine - Volume 69, page 451
    • The girls in the baseball team were all dressed in unionalls.1920, Western Advertising - Volume 2, page 40
  2. (mortuary technology) A clear vinyl onesie used to prevent leakage from a corpse from soiling the body's clothes or casket lining.
    • If general edema, tissue decomposition or extensive burns are present, a unionall may be necessary to protect the clothing once the body is dressed.2011, Robert G. Mayer, Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice
    • In cases of extensive trauma, trying to fill a body with embalming fluid is like trying to fill a sieve or a sponge. To help lessen the leakage, the funeral home had zipped the body inside a “Unionall,” a leak-resistant jumpsuit, before dressing the Bopper in his funeral suit.2011, Dr Bill Bass, Jefferson Bass, Jon Jefferson, Beyond the Body Farm

Examples of unionall in a sentence

  • It may be that Overall and Unionall buttons are not remarkable for their beauty of design, nor yet for their technical excellence;1947, Dorothy Fostre Brown, “Overall Buttons”, in Hobbies, volume 52, page 32:
  • Very few patients had underwear in the summer, and those who wore unionalls never had underwear.1961, Mental Hospitals, page 35:
  • I wish Bessie and T.B. had sent something for this boy to wear besides these unionalls.1985, Where the Two Streams Meet, page 347:
  • Put on your long socks, Sissy, and you both can wear your striped unionalls too.2008, Jane Lowrey-Christian, Budgie and Sissy's Adventure: Growing up in North Missouri, page 67:

Forms of unionall

pluralunionalls

Origin of unionall

Originally a brand name.

Questions about unionall

What does unionall mean?
Unionall means a one-piece garment that is used as work clothes or as a uniform.
How do you use unionall in a sentence?
It may be that Overall and Unionall buttons are not remarkable for their beauty of design, nor yet for their technical excellence;
What part of speech is unionall?
Unionall is a noun.
What is the plural of unionall?
The plural of unionall is unionalls.

Words near unionall in the dictionary

  1. union territory
  2. union wage premium
  3. union wage premiums
  4. Union-jack
  5. unional
  6. unionall
  7. unionalls
  8. unionbuster
  9. unionbusters
  10. unionbusting
  11. Uniondale

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