middy
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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
In time their bustles gave way to hobble skirts; middy blouses came & went.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
He jumped passing lines, dug in and deflected on double teams, swished middies and bullied smaller defenders between him and the rim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2024
Some middies snuck in late on Wed night and light the fire a day early.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
A group of rabble-rouser middies, the “Bad Bunch,” coalesced around McCain.
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2018
Was the distribution of shot times entirely random, or were there any local or global patterns to descry: longies with longies, middies alternating with shorties, etc.?
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2010
In Norfolk, middies held hands and formed a human chain, dancing around cars like kindergartners, madly encircling the standstill traffic.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
