What is "all-over"

Usage examples of "all-over".

He took in her dress which was made of dainty all-over embroidered net, the skirt displaying graceful godet flare inserts of harmonising silk georgette crepe that had also been used for a cascade scarf.

He was all-over huskier and hairier than before, and had grown a beard, brown and curly.

The Chater valley was a lush all-over green, the steep walls bulging in and out to form irregular glens and hummocks.

I moved off along the walk, mingled with men in capes and three-cornered hats, women in all-over ruffles and stand-up lace collars and some stripped to the waist and painted like barber poles, and a few of both sexes wrapped in old bed-sheets.

The all-over carpeting seemed to roll and flow, rearing softly here and there into furniture that was rounded extrusions and lumps in a suite seemingly coated in a form of teal blue indigo.

Given however all-over compensatory design despair such as is known to you and known to me, and freakiness, and bearing in mind push-pull as prior to and above all, and disregarding those whose larger pattern security is challenged or threatened by these systematically pulsing alternations, we project your existence here as possibly tolerable within tolerances of .

It was a body all-over pale even to the hair, a young and well-made body draped precariously over the bow of her skip, which was a vast waste to have feeding the fishes and the eels, even if he was what he probably was, some poor debtor or someone afoul of the gangs.

It was the haunting, all-over radiance peculiar to tropical storms just before they broke.

Not an all-over waxiness though, there was no blood on my face now but the pine needles had left their mark, I looked like someone with galloping impetigo.