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chequer-brats

chequer-brats is the plural of chequer-brat.

Meaning of chequer-brat

Noun

chequer-brat (plural chequer-brats)

  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

Questions about chequer-brats

What is chequer-brats the plural of?
Chequer-brats is the plural of chequer-brat.

Words near chequer-brats in the dictionary

  1. chequeless
  2. chequer
  3. chequer tree
  4. chequer trees
  5. chequer-brat
  6. chequer-brats
  7. Chequerbent
  8. chequerboard
  9. chequerboarded
  10. chequerboarding
  11. chequerboards

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