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- noun clothing for use outdoors.
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- noun clothing for use outdoors
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Examples
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Then Liz took off her overclothes and appeared in that dress.
Still Waiting for “Year of the Woman” | PopPolitics.com 2004
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Then Liz took off her overclothes and appeared in that dress.
Print - Still Waiting for “Year of the Woman” | PopPolitics.com 2004
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Then Liz took off her overclothes and appeared in that dress.
Still Waiting for “Year of the Woman” | PopPolitics.com 2004
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The sightings now seem to be coming from everywhere — Elizabeth Smart, disguised in wigs and veils, glasses and shapeless overclothes, at parties, at stores, walking a public street in broad daylight.
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By now the oversized feet had been noticed by many in the crowd, but that didn't lessen the gasp of surprise that filled the room when all seven divested themselves of their overclothes.
Quozl Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1989
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Flandry scrambled back into the overclothes he had shucked while working.
A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969
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She told him she liked him better than any of the town boys; his calling was noble enough and hard enough; but she failed to see her ideal hero in a man with blue overclothes on and cinders in his ears.
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He was small, but wiry, and had evidently come prepared for business, as he had some overclothes under his arm and a pair of buckskin gloves.
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The package was heavy, but I must carry it lightly under my arm, as if it were only overclothes.
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By this means men can be given their baths in batches of fifty or one hundred, give up their overclothes on entrance and receive the same prior to their departure.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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