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词汇 siren suit
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Definition of siren suit in English:

siren suit

noun
  • A one-piece garment for the whole body which is easily put on or taken off, originally designed for use in air-raid shelters.

    连衣裤,长罩衣,工作服(易于穿或脱的一件式全身装,原为在防空洞工作穿着而设计的。)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The war had a dramatic effect on women's fashion. Women started to compromise by wearing overalls, dungarees, trousers, siren suits and making their own clothes.
    • I never gave it much thought, but if I had to describe a grandfather he would have been a loving and much-loved man, dressed in a siren suit.
    • Our siren suits were made of army surplus blankets and occasionally there was parachute silk to make underwear.
    • See inside the many and varied views of the great war leader who became renowned for his fondness for cigars, siren suits, hats and victory salutes.
    • We would get up in the middle of the night, I would be dressed in my specially made purple siren suit and we then went down into the shelter.
    • It became routine for Mum to get us into our siren suits and tuck us up into the bunk in the shelter each night.
    • Churchill broadcasted to the nation in his famous ‘siren suit’.
    • We were snug in our siren suits and were quietly playing, with one ear on the bangs, bumps and thuds that seemed to grow nearer.
    • The girl dressed in what pre-war we would have called a boiler suit and would later be described as a siren suit.
    • Winston Churchill started the fashion for siren suits.
    • Until the mid-1960s the siren suits were sewn in blue or red cotton or poplin with flannel lining.
    • They had only the clothes they stood up in, which were green siren suits.
    • During the war military styling influenced the women's fashion; they wore anything from trousers to one-piece siren suits.
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