middy
Example Sentences
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She and her friends walk to school in pleated skirts and middy sailor blouses.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2021
A middy is a half-pint in some states Down Under, although also known as a pot.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2011
Brown-skinned girls in neat blue middy blouses strolled among the bougainvillea, and in the glittering, pinnacled temples near by, yellow-robed Buddhist priests went about their ritual.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fashion editors burbled of "straight, flat pullovers," "oldfashioned middy blouses."
From Time Magazine Archive
So on Friday I put on my middy blouse which, more than any of my clothes, made me feel like a Marjorie, and my mother called for rickshas.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
