Meanings
adjectiveoveralled (not comparable)
- not comparableWearing overalls
He meant the four other young faces in the picture, two bare-footed girls and a pair of overalled boys.
1958, Truman Capote, chapter 9, in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Penguin, published 2008, page 581 more example
A group of overalled men at one of the dozen stained crueted tables looked up briefly as they came in and then resumed their low conversation. Relief crews for the Diesels, Bond guessed.
1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 119
Origin
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