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Overall

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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... lbs. for a piece of 7 feet to 8 feet in length, but the size of the pieces is regulated somewhat by the system of feeding which is to be adopted at the breaker-card, as well as by the manager's opinion of what will give the best overall result. ...

— The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth • T. Woodhouse and P. Kilgour

... but the affair was amicably arranged by the vice-consul receiving about one quarter of the cargo in bales of silks and muslins. Miss Hicks had therefore all her dresses of blue, green, and yellow sarcenet, which, with the white muslin overall, made her as conspicuous as the only Frankish lady in the town had a right to be, and there was not a dog which barked in Tetuan which did not know the sister of the vice-consul, although few had ...

— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Captain Frederick Marryat

... of the demands which Philip had made of Clement V., and a demand which the council had to grant, was the condemnation of the order of Knights Templars, whose vast wealth Philip coveted. On the 13th of October, 1307, the Templars were arrested overall France,—an act which evinces both the power of Philip, and his injustice. They were charged with secret immoralities, and with practices involving impiety. Provincial councils were called together to decree the judgment preordained by the king. The Templars were examined under torture, ...

— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher

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