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There was one wearing a pale pink coat, another in a cream-coloured tight-sleeved gown, another in a petticoat as red as the arms of the reaping-machine; and others, older, in the brown-rough 'wropper' or over-all -- the old-established and most appropriate dress of the field-woman, which the young ones were abandoning.
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There was one wearing a pale pink jacket, another in a cream-coloured tight-sleeved gown, another in a petticoat as red as the arms of the reaping-machine; and others, older, in the brown-rough "wropper" or over-all -- the old-established and most appropriate dress of the field-woman, which the young ones were abandoning.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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'More like forty,' broke in an old milkman near, in a long white pinafore or 'wropper,' and with the brim of his hat tied down, so that he looked like a woman.
Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884
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a long white pinafore or ‘wropper,’ and with the brim of his hat tied down, so that he looked like a woman.
Wessex Tales 2006
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"Now, Miss Ann, you git in yo 'wropper an' lay down a spell an 'I'm gonter fotch you a cup er tea.
The Comings of Cousin Ann Emma Speed Sampson 1907
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And then he got out a little flat bottle of something short, and went for a nip; but the cough took him, and it sprouted over his wropper and was wasted. "
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
Ernestopete commented on the word wropper
Wropper - a pinafore styled coverall worn by women engaged in farm work during the 19th & early 20th centuries in Britain & elsewhere.
August 13, 2017