dungarees

What it means

1. pluralplural onlyHeavy denim pants or trousers, usually with bib and braces, worn especially as work clothing.

   Helen donned a pair of faded dungarees and grabbed her knapsack before rushing off to school.

   2 more examples

   Next came a domeshaped sukhpal (palanquin), its silver plated pole being borne by eight sturdy troopers wearing red flowing kurtas, silk kamarbunds, and silk dungarees.

   1976, Tapan Ghosh, The Adventures of Shivaji, page 140

   I’d arrived at Heaven nightclub, underneath the Charing Cross railway arches, on a hot Sunday afternoon to find my friends had already gone in – you didn’t risk hanging back and missing your chance – so I joined the queue of kids dressed in the acid house uniform of Day-Glo dungarees and smiley T-shirts.

   2018 July 1, Sharon Walker, “Thirty years since the second summer of love”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: overalls

In a sentence

Helen donned a pair of faded dungarees and grabbed her knapsack before rushing off to school.

Where it comes from

1. Hindiडूंगरी“coarse calico”
2. Englishdungarees

From dungaree + -s, from Hindi डूंगरी (ḍūṅgrī, “coarse calico”), from the name of a village.