peasant dress
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- noun
- /ˈpɛzənt drɛs/
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vestido campesino
- She was dressed in a simple peasant dress of white, embroidered around the high collar.
- wear a peasant dress
Examples
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She was dressed in a simple peasant dress of white, embroidered around the high collar.
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Charlotte enters, wearing a peasant dress and felt hat, looking pretty, pale, and excited.
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Charlotte enters, wearing a peasant dress and felt hat, looking pretty, pale, and excited.
Fiction book (2000) -
She had a peasant dress for me to wear, but no shawl.
Fiction book (2000) -
She wears a peasant dress with a cycle jacket, a backpack, and another eccentric hat.
Fiction book (2000) -
After the ceremony, she changed into a peasant dress, played the balalaika, and sang Slavic folk songs.
How Ornate
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- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — a dress associated with or styled like what peasants traditionally wear — is directly predictable from combining 'peasant' (rural farmer) with 'dress' (one-piece garment). This 'X-style' compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English noun + noun/compound semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Peasant dress comes from the simple clothes country women used to wear: loose blouses and gathered skirts often finished with embroidery. So, today peasant dress means a women's dress with a loose bodice and sleeves and embroidered details, copying that old country look.