chequer-brat

noun

chequer-brat

noun

1

Obsolete A kind of crossbarred pinafore.

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.”1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

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