all-over
See also: allover and all over
English
All-over painting
Alternative forms
- allover
Etymology
From Middle English alover, equivalent to all- + over.
Adjective
all-over (not comparable)
- over the whole area or extent
- 1939 June, T. R. Perkins, “My Red-Letter Day - II”, in Railway Magazine, page 399:
- Charing Cross station of the old South-Eastern Railway differed much in appearance from that of today, as it had an arched all-over roof, which collapsed some nine years later and was replaced by the present one.
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Related terms
- See also: all over
Translations
over the whole area or extent
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Anagrams
- overall, valerol