pinafore

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“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

Later, sequined pinafore dresses were paired with knee-high boots and tops featured long pockets hanging like scarves.

From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2022

She now collects items from parents across the area and helps get them to families who need anything from a new blazer for high school to a pinafore for winter term.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2021

Soon Hedda discovers a mysterious message written under the pinafore of an eyeless Raggedy Ann doll by her younger self, which leads her to the Dark Web and a game called the Glare.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2020

As we go under bridges and pull through stations the light flickers and Carmine makes a shadow game of moving his hand across my white pinafore.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline