unitard
A skin-tight garment covering the torso and the legs, sometimes the arms and feet.
Noun
- A skin-tight garment covering the torso and the legs, sometimes the arms and feet.
- While Lincoln Kirstein noted that the unitards did show clearly the dancers' lines, he too found them distracting: "Union-suit tights are hard to make look neat, but the line of undergarments shining through continually...
- The unitard consists of a leotard (a sort of stretchy one-piece bathing suit) attached to a pair of tights, which completely cover the legs. The unitard can be worn by anyone — men and women, boys, girls, and...
- Backstage (that is, in the high school locker room) before the show, all the other senior girls were pulling on their red unitards for the jazz piece. - 2011, Jodi Lundgren, Leap, page 73:
Origin
Blend of uni- + leotard.