pinafore

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Here’s the appropriately macabre opening of Coleridge’s “The Crime of the Urchin Mary”: “It was an ancient crone who wrote / Silly rhymes for tots / Was stopped by a maid in a pinafore / With blood-red polkadots.”

From Washington Post

Though it was her subtle way with black leather — coats, pinafores, pleated skirts — and the ruffled celadon silks that lingered.

From New York Times

But Burnett’s world of starched pinafores and exotic Indian servants is more than a century old.

From New York Times

Since Monday, staff in the NHS only have to wear a simple face mask, short gloves and a pinafore apron, Dr Anderson said.

From BBC

The princess smiled as she arrived in her brand new uniform of a pinafore with a white summer blouse, and black shoes and white socks, ready to join her reception class of 21 other students.

From Fox News