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pinafore

[pin-uh-fawr, -fohr] / ˈpɪn əˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr /
NOUN
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On one trip, then 6-year-old Bridget won a Laura look-alike contest in a handmade pinafore and bonnet sewn by her grandmother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

It's of a brown bear with big claws and a blonde woman in a green pinafore dress beside it.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

“I love the scale of the check. I thought it harked back to the original pinafore she wore in the first ‘Beetlejuice,’” says Atwood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024

It looked like old lady clothes, but also the pinafore type of things.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2022

But that didn’t mean Ophie was alone: a little girl with pale blond braids and a pinafore sat curled up in a wing chair, reading a book.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

It is seeking donations of good-quality, unbranded uniform items, including polo shirts, pinafores and PE shorts.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

In photos I saw when she was a kid and I was a kid, she looked like one of us, in pinafores and high pigtails, or Benetton sweaters and frizzy hair.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

Anderson, after he showed a collection on Wednesday that included men wearing ruffly bloomer shorts, shift dresses and pinafores, but made in classic gray and camel wool.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2013

Gingham and prints of island life added girlish charm to the relaxed shapes, which included pieces like pinafores, low-slung shorts and men's style shirts.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2012

We are scrubbed and in our donated clothes, the girls in dresses with white pinafores and thick stockings, the boys in knickers that button below the knee, white dress shirts, neckties, thick wool suit coats.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline


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