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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dungarees
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Denim dungarees reduced from £36.99 to £29.99.
▪ He wore brown dungarees and a brown shirt, both in strong material.
▪ How about a shawl, babies dungarees or a cuddly toy?
▪ Lowering his eyes, he stared in some bemusement at the men's over-large dungarees she was wearing.
▪ She tried going around in dungarees to disguise things, but Mom didn't think they were ladylike.
▪ Striped dungarees, £45 approx, Chipie.
▪ The building was besieged by Right-Ons, many wearing dungarees and riding shiny hi-tech bicycles bought on credit in Covent Garden.
▪ Who else would wear Andy Pandy candy-striped dungarees on stage, other than Philip Schofield?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dungarees

trousers made of dungaree, 1868.

Wiktionary
dungarees

n. heavy denim pants or overalls, worn especially as work clothing.

Usage examples of "dungarees".

Their blue dungarees were ragged, and the shirttails hung outside the trousers.

Ken, who was wearing dungarees, looked tired when Ernie picked him up behind the orderly room at Camp Elliott.

And in his dungarees, he did not much resemble the Marine officer in the recruiting posters.

He was still in dungarees with his rough-side-out field shoes stretched out in front of him.

McCoy, USMCR, wearing dungarees, at the end of Pier Four at the yacht club.

They were in dungarees and wearing field gear, except for rifles and helmets.

And since general prisoners don't have uniforms, except for dungarees with a 'P' painted on them, they give them a new issue.

Some were in dungarees, some in dyed-black khaki, some wore a mixture of both uniforms, and some wore parts of uniforms scrounged from the Nautilus's crew.

Crowding the slatted rail divider, lined up against the desks and the file cabinets and the windows and the bulletin boards, slouched into every conceivable corner of the room, were at least eight thousand kids in blue dungarees and red-and-white-striped tee shirts.

Some of the kids, Hawes noticed, were wearing dungarees and striped tee shirts.

She was holding the hand of a ten-year-old blond kid in dungarees and a red-striped tee shirt.

The dungarees of the sailors were clean, and the shirts tucked inside the trousers, whereas a flapping shirttail would have been a proper heraldic device for the Caine.

Stilwell came up to the bridge at a quarter to four dressed in brand-new dungarees and a newly bleached white hat.

The sailor wore the immaculate dungarees and highly polished shoes in which he had appeared for trial at captain's mast that morning, shortly before the arrival of the despatch.

He had observed the mast ceremony on the quarterdeck with some wonder-ment-the solemn array of scared offenders in stiff new blue dungarees, the accusing officers lined up at attention opposite the culprits, and Queeg, calm and pleasant, receiving the prisoners' red service folders one by one from Jellybelly.