unionall

plural unionalls

1. plural normallyA one-piece garment that is used as work clothes or as a uniform.

   The girls in the baseball team were all dressed in unionalls.

   1920, Western Advertising - Volume 2, page 40

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   Frowning thought held him a moment; then he clawed beneath his unionall.

   1920, Munsey's Magazine - Volume 69, page 451

   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

2. mortuary technologyA 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

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   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

   Some of the very nervous (or careful) in my profession use shrink wrap, heating it up with a hairdryer to seal it, then put the unionall garment over the top of the shrink wrap.

   2019, Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs: Big questions from tiny mortals about death, page 249