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pinafore

[pin-uh-fawr, -fohr] / ˈpɪn əˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr /
NOUN
apron
Synonyms
STRONGEST
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Her teachers instantly recognized the pinafore dress and bonnet, but her fellow students didn’t know who she was.

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

She used a pinafore that she’d worn as a costume in a play.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

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

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

The white pinafores the little girls were wearing almost glowed, reminding me, for just a moment, of the real Céline shirt.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2010

Even out on the street, teetering through stone courtyards on their way to shows, editors wore dresses that were little more than pinafores, and shirts that were basically bibs.

From Washington Post

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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