chequer-brat

English

Noun

chequer-brat (plural chequer-brats)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of crossbarred pinafore.
    • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
      They wear paper-caps and white aprons with “bibs” to them, or a sort of cross-barred pinafore, called in the manufacturing districts a “chequer-brat.”
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