one-piece
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of one-piece
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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In her first picture, she stood in a one-piece on a boulder, smiling, a waterfall pummeling behind her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
Yet Churchill’s wartime wardrobe included velvet slippers and one-piece rompers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
A burka is a one-piece veil that covers the face and body, often leaving just a mesh screen to see through.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
For the swimsuit portion of the Miss Argentina contest, Rodríguez chose a modest one-piece suit with a shawl draped over her shoulders, giving the crowd a shimmy as fans whooped and blew air horns.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
Young women in modest one-piece bathing suits with frilled skirts splashed in the water or stretched out on warm sand, waiting.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
And the girls in the bathing suits had one-pieces so they weren't really skimpy, and they had heaters in the fitting room so they wouldn't be cold.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2022
Most recently, she posed in a seafoam-green one-piece as she encouraged her followers to use a discount code to purchase similar "glorious one-pieces" from her collection.
From Fox News ● Sep. 5, 2021
It’s been the subject of a New York Times Magazine Letter of Recommendation and has had its image plastered on swim shorts and one-pieces.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2019
But two of fashion week’s most memorable one-pieces came courtesy of Naeem Khan, one a black, threadwork-embroidered jumpsuit with sleeve ruffles and flared legs and a multicolored embroidered jumpsuit with exposed shoulders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2017
Drawing on the obsession with masculine wardrobes, Paul Smith converted staples like suits and blazers into cute one-pieces.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
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